Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's wish that the celebration be as simple as possible and that all undue expenditure be avoided." Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told the House of Commons. "The title 'Silver Jubilee' has. with His Majesty's approval, been officially adopted for the year...
...Raised cheer on cheer for that popular John Bull, bottle-nosed Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, as he championed the Government's big Air Force program in homely phrases against a Labor motion of censure and let fall a sentence which rang round the world. "Since the day of the air the old frontiers are gone," cried Orator Baldwin, "and when you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the white cliffs of Dover, but you think of the Rhine. That is where, today, our frontier lies...
...even Franklin Roosevelt could be counted on to convince the U. S. Congress that such an expenditure was justified, but England remains England and His Majesty's Government felt not the slightest need to send Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin into the breach last week. Instead, fingering his Old Etonian tie, the husband of Lady Diana (The Miracle) Manners arose from the Government bench. In his own right Alfred Duff Cooper, M. P., is Financial Secretary at the War Office and a special protege of Conservative Leader Baldwin. When Patron Baldwin was being attacked with special savagery by the Press...
...teakwood and cream enamel Royal Train parked one night last week on a siding near Knowsley Hall, vast Lancashire estate of Edward George Villiers Stanley. 17th Earl of Derby.* There is no other peer with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat...
When Morgan-Partner Harold Stanley resigned fortnight ago from the board of United Corp.'s potent affiliate, Niagara Hudson Power Corp., it was explained that Niagara Hudson wanted to replace bankers on its directorate with utilitarians and businessmen familiar with the localities in which its subsidiaries operated. Month before another of United's big affiliates, Commonwealth & Southern Corp., accepted the resignation of three bankers for the same reason. Last week the directors of United, a majority of whom are bankers, met in Manhattan and reversed the process. They accepted the resignation of three active utility men on United Corp...