Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verdant Severn valley of England where still survive the genial, autocratic Squire and the great yet cozy country house, lies Bewdley, one of the safest Conservative constituencies in the Kingdom. Its Parliamentary member for the last 28 years has been Stanley Baldwin, now nearly 70, and younger members of the Party say he would understand more of their troubles "if the P. M. ever had to fight for his seat, instead of just standing in Bewdley." To its homely broad-brogued farmers the Prime Minister went last week to confirm what everyone knew -that he is about to retire from...
...Whatever Fascism and Communism may produce for Russia, Italy and Germany, I want to warn you," said Stanley Baldwin...
Defense is one of Coach Skip Stanley's chief problems; right now he is alternating his new zone defence with the old man to man style of play. On the offense he is striving for more speed and scientific aggressiveness. Observers are predicting "more punch" for the 1937 edition of the first baseman's ball tossers. And there are a lot of good players...
...York Rangers, professional hockey team: their two-out-of-three game series against the favored Montreal Maroons, for the right to play the Detroit Red Wings for the Stanley Cup and hockey's world championship; 1-to-0 and 4-to-0; at New York, then Montreal...
...formed Publishers Service Co. and began to job-lot sets of Dickens and Mark Twain to other publishers who passed them on to readers at cost. Smelling profits, 36-year-old Leonard Davidow chucked his job as publishers' wholesaler at Reading, Pa. last autumn and joined Stanley Livingston to form his Standard American Corp. and Consolidated Book Publishers...