Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner last week at 69 Eaton Square, London, the home of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, now Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, went His Majesty King George VI. Tory that he is, Earl Baldwin invited to eat, drink and smoke informally with His Majesty eight Laborite and Liberal leaders who had never before met the King. Some thought that Earl Baldwin, privately vehemently critical of the Chamberlain Government, was hatching a palace plot against the Prime Minister. Better explanation: the King, symbol of the nation, was simply making friends with men who might be needed in a crisis. This could...
...clock in the morning the night before, at the Somerset Hotel, Roosevelt passed his final interview with the committee Saturday under flying colors. The other New England men to attain the honor were Vernon G. Lippitt, a graduate student at M.I.T., Harry H. Mitchell, a Senior at Yale, and Stanley E. Sprague, a Senior at Middlebury College...
...Ashram (retreat) in Lucknow, India is the spiritual home, and sometimes the physical home, of the world's greatest Christian missionary-Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, Methodist, author of The Christ of the Indian Road, evangelist to high-caste Hindus, who call him Rishi (a saint). From his Ashram last summer Dr. Jones wrote his friends about the Kingdom of God, declaring: "Never have I been so convinced that this is the one hope of the human race. How my heart tingles with joy that we have such a message for such a time as this." Missionary Jones then left...
Thirty-eight years ago a shy young Creston, Ill. farmer named Stanley R. Pierce took his 1,43O-lb. Aberdeen-Angus steer, Advance, 72 miles to Chicago, to the first International Live Stock Exposition. Advance won the title of Grand Champion Steer. As this year's gaily bedecked, heavily disinfected show opened last week in the brick-&-cement International Amphitheatre at Chicago's Union Stock Yards, Farmer Pierce was again on hand. Watching his best beef cattle collect only three prizes (a 4th, a 5th, a 13th), he mused sadly that Advance had won in "an easy walkaway...
...HOLDS A CANDLE-Erh Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). In his second exploit, small-town District Attorney Douglas Selby finds far-flung repercussions in the apparently accidental death of an unknown hitchhiker. Good detection but the D. A. can't hold a candle to Gardner's Perry Mason...