Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guards stood at the door of the Courtroom keeping crowds of tourists at bay in the corridors. Newshawks and those with passes entered the Courtroom through the adjoining marshal's office. At the counsel table sat Donald Richberg and Solicitor General Stanley Reed who had argued the test case, both in fine fettle...
Sentimental Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, last week gave the House of Commons Britain's revised air program, two months after Adolf Hitler had told Sir John Simon that Germany's new air fleet will match France's 1,700 planes. Slow in coming, the British reply was impressive. Last week, while Baldwin explained the bellicose program in principle to the Commons, Air Minister Lord Londonderry gave the House of Lords the details...
Noting that British airplane stocks are already soaring, Stanley Baldwin last week added: "I hope there will be no profiteering in a time we might call an emergency. ... I have been made almost physically sick to think that I and other statesmen of Europe should, 2,000 years after Christ was crucified, be spending our time thinking how we can take the mangled bodies of children to hospitals and how we can keep poison gas from going down the throats of people...
...fiery Wartime pacifism of James Ramsay MacDonald has long since mellowed into compromise. Compromise has made him Prime Minister of England, the King's good friend and pet lion of the Marchioness of Londonderry. To the hard-headed Conservatives of the National Government, led in fact by Stanley Baldwin, mellow Scot MacDonald is an ideal figurehead, never more so than now as it faces an oncoming national election. MacDonald, however, is far from well. Over & over the Conservatives have prepared the voters for MacDonald's final fade-out by slipping out rumors that he was about to resign...
Attending the conference were Attorney General Homer S. Cummings; Donald R. Richberg, chairman of the NRA; and Solicitor General Stanley Reed...