Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News of this outrage reached London only a few days after the use of bombing planes had been denounced as "horrible"' in the House of Commons by kind-hearted Leader Stanley Baldwin of the ruling Conservative Party. On top of such a speech, His Majesty's Government could scarcely threaten, in writing, to bomb Abyssinians into letting Kenya alone. Obviously, too, His Majesty's Government cannot afford to police the whole Kenya frontier. What to do? Staring His Majesty's Government in the face was the fact that over 1,000 Kenyans have been killed this...
...event, there would have been little excitement at Amherst College last week when Dr. Stanley King, able lawyer-businessman, was inaugurated nth president. Few days before the ceremonies. Amherst was quiet. Seniors sat on their fence, as only they may do. Somewhere about was "Dean"' Burns, the campus character who imagines he is the dean of Amherst, of Smith, of Mt. Holyoke. Many a student walked over to nearby Smith, whose ladies observe "They're mild but they satisfy." Then all over Amherst went the tantalizing news that Sabrina had been on view. Not only that, but Sabrina had been...
...Stanley King is an odd, of the class of 1903. Last week Amherst was amazed to view him, first Amherst president ever to be photographed with Sabrina (see cut). Also photographed were the two odd class presidents, Robert E. Marshall '33 and Kendall B. DeBevoise '35. None of them would tell where the photograph was taken...
...Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics to try and carry Ohio for Hoover. Rhode Island. Impressed with his strenuous campaign as the "All-Round Man" who, stripped to the waist, lugged stones (TIME, Nov. 7), voters preferred Democrat Theodore Francis Green as Governor to Republican Norman Stanley Case, incumbent...
...film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario of the epochmaking 18-piece orchestra was Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. In 1926 Moe Mark sold some of his chain of cinema theatres to Stanley Co. of America which merged (1928) with Warner Brothers; in 1929 he sold the rest to Warner...