Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy of playing ball with Mussolini was receiving distrustful glances from France last week, it received its first nod of approval from the voters at home. In a parliamentary bye-election at Aylesbury, Bucks., fought largely over Conservative Prime Minister Chamberlain's foreign policy, the Conservative candidate, Sir Stanley Reed, won a comfortable victory over his Liberal and Laborite opponents. Sir Stanley polled 21,695 votes, the Liberal candidate 10,751 and the Laborite...
...Kingsley Wood, formerly Health Minister, becomes Air Secretary; Lord Harlech, who had just entered the peerage because of his father's death, and who formerly as William Ormsby-Gore was Colonial. Secretary, is succeeded in that post by Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late great Ramsay; Lord Stanley becomes Dominions Secretary, the office vacated by Mr. MacDonald; and Major Walter Elliot is made Health Minister, relinquishing the Secretaryship for Scotland to Lieut. Colonel David John Colville, formerly Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
...House of Commons saw this as a series of merited promotions for Sir Kingsley, MacDonald, Stanley and Elliot who have long been marked as comparatively youthful "comers." In the dropping out of Peers Swinton and Harlech was seen an effort to give the Chamberlain Cabinet a more "democratic" guise before a General Election becomes necessary. This week London papers began saying openly that for this same reason Viscount Halifax may soon be succeeded as Foreign Secretary by a "commoner," possibly even by Vote Getter Anthony Eden...
...Edward Hicks's Residence of David Twining; Sportsman John Hay Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss; Financier Sam A. Lewisohn; Marshall Field; Edsel B. Ford; Manhattan Architect Philip L. Goodwin; Mrs. Stanley Resor of Manhattan and Robert Hudson Tannahill of Detroit. All except Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Tannahill are trustees of the Museum of Modern Art; but Mr. Bliss is a trustee and Mr. Tannahill is a cousin of Mrs. Edsel Ford. Outside this wealthy constellation, the large and scattered group...
...week, to retire the loans and get the money for 1938's construction, Myron Taylor's successor, young Edward R. Stettinius Jr., announced his first big financial operation: flotation of $100,000,000 in ten-year debentures, to take place next month under the wing of Morgan Stanley...