Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oliver Baldwin--son of Stanley Baldwin, socialist, ex-member of Parliament...
...world champion Montreal Canadiens, 4 to 1; at Montreal. Philadelphia and Ottawa have no teams in the National Hockey League this year. Nonetheless, Hockey League directors last month decided to retain a system whereby this season all but the two poorest teams in the league qualify for the Stanley Cup play-off next March. A new rule this year: A penalty face-off will be ordered if any player other than the goalie falls on the puck within ten feet of his own goal...
...respectable people. So he went into politics. A big fellow (6 ft. 4 in.) with big appetites, a cold heart, a shrewd head, he took to low life like a hippopotamus to water. When he was sent to the State Legislature he refused to truckle to Pennsylvania Boss Matthew Stanley Quay. Quay was impressed, made Penrose first his protege, then his partner. The Penrose path was broad and easy: he ambled into the U. S. Senate, into the counsels of Big Republican Business, into the Republican National Committee. But the one thing he most wanted, the mayoralty of Philadelphia...
...Cabinet. At Speaker Fitzroy's bidding the Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, led the House in orderly procession to sign the Roll (equivalent to swearing in). By the time 615 autographs had been affixed, the House was ready to adjourn. Parliament came to an abrupt standstill for several days while Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald put finishing touches to his revised National Government and wrote the Speech from the Throne later delivered by George...
Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, Conservative...