Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mercilessly heckled the new Secretary for Colonies, intellectual Malcolm MacDonald, son of demoted James Ramsay MacDonald who now holds the sinecure Lord President of the Council. Young Mr. MacDonald was saddled last week with the thankless task of defending Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's extraordinary move of letting Premier Benito Mussolini know that His Majesty's Government would have been willing to cede some British territory to Ethiopia if that Empire could have been thus induced to make concessions to Il Duce sufficient to halt his prospective colonial war (TIME, July...
...only Laborites and Liberals but also Conservative henchmen of the Prime Minister broke away to heap their wrath at popular Stanley Baldwin's latest bumble upon unpopular Ramsay MacDonald's luckless son Malcolm. Stormed Conservative M.P. Sir Arnold Wilson: "Was His Majesty's pleasure on this subject ascertained...
...Cheered Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, who hopes to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister after the coming election, when he made certain cut & dried fiscal observations the excuse for launching into something resembling President Roosevelt's self-congratulatory fireside talks...
After taking in hot haste the most extraordinary step which any of British George V's Governments have taken since the War, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet suffered last week slight pricks of conscience...
...Robert Stanley Dollar (Dollar Steamship Lines) received $698,750 in commissions on purchases of Government-owned ships at low prices...