Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sacrilege!" In the House of Commons last week Major Stanley was obliged to execute as gracefully as possible an excruciatingly awkward and painful maneuver. National Government were supposed to be advancing with their new Dole program on all fronts. The gallant Major had orders to sound a general retreat...
With unruffled Eton candor Major Stanley rose to tell the House that Britain's new Dole system, after one month's trial, has proved so unpopular with Britain's proletariat that he found himself obliged to suspend it here and now. Brave Major Stanley went further, admitted himself completely routed. In cases where the new Dole has reduced payments to individuals, he said, they would not only be upped back to their former scale but Government would give them the sum withheld last month. In cases where the new Dole upped payments, recipients not only keep what...
...down the land Anglican churchmen had come out with the proletariat for what they called a square deal, and National Government, frightened last week, were trying to give it in hot haste. None too soon. Day after Major Stanley suspended the hated new Dole regulations, famed Sheffield's silver-plating and cutlery-fashioning proletariat ran amuck around the City Hall, flung brickbats through the windows when the Sheffield City Council refused to receive a delegation of unemployed demanding still more Dole, beat up nine policemen...
...blow of last week's reverse to National Government was especially heavy to young Tory statesmen like Oliver Stanley, whose family has provided statesmen since 1385. If even the Church of England is plumping for a "Square Deal" in 1935, where will these young Tories be 20 years hence, when their elders of today lie in honored graves? Just now two other young Mayfair statesmen comprise with Major Stanley the outstanding trinity of coming non-Laborite leaders...
...India Sir Samuel Hoare could only burble ''Our policy is to do all we can by sympathetic help. . . ." Worst of all, National Government were being successfully attacked on their moderate India policy from their reactionary English rear. The situation appeared so desperate that British Majority Leader Stanley Baldwin needed all his bumbling genius for executing the maneuver known as muddling through. Stepping to a microphone last week honest Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, magnificently announced...