Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actual Progress made at the World Conference last week was solely in the realm of wheat. The "Big Four" wheat exporting countries (U. S., Canada, Argentina, Australia) had been held up for a fortnight while Australia's dapper, grey-spatted Resident Minister in London. Stanley Melbourne Bruce, badgered his Government by cable at 40? per word to join the others in some sort of wheat acreage reduction pact (TIME, July 3). Last week, after a conference of Australia's State Premiers. Dominion Premier Lyons ("The Man from Tasmania") had good news for Mr. Bruce. Next...
...Exchequer-but this rule has ceased to hold. Gaunt, dynamic Chancellor Neville Chamberlain has every right to live in No. 11 and is rated the real head of the ruling Conservative Party, but he joins in showing every deference to the party's titular Leader, beloved and bumbling Stanley Baldwin who (conscious of his shortcomings as a statesman) was always trying to resign during his two terms as Prime Minister (1923-24 and 1924-29). Today beloved Stanley Baldwin lives in No. 11 with the determined woman who would never let him resign, good Mrs. Lucy Baldwin whose archaic...
...only party that could work this scheme is the Indian Congress party [of Mahatma Gandhi]. And where are the Indian Congress party? They are in jail! Are we to place the loyal police under the control of the very Congress members they arrested?" Thus challenged last week. Bumbling Stanley showed exactly as much and no more metal than is pleasing to the middle-of-the-road Conservatives who have returned him again and again as Leader. Walking over to Mr. Churchill, he put a big paw on his shoulder, waited until cheers and counter cheers had subsided, and then made...
...long months will the. White Paper come up before Britain's Parliament to be enacted and give a new. more liberal Constitution to India or to be thrown into the discard. Not being in a hurry, the Conservative Conference voted last week 838 to 356 for "Safety First" Stanley Baldwin. It broke up amid more singing of "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow," thus firmly convinced Mrs. Stanley Baldwin all over again that God is in his Heaven and all is right with the English world...
...Ramsay Mac Donald is Prime Minister as the result of an agreement between his small wins of the Labor Party and Stanley Baldwin's Conservatives to form a National Government in 1031. Mrs. Baldwin likes and trusts Prime Minister MacDonald because, although a Socialist, he too believes in Providence...