Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Courthouse. Little did many of them know beforehand of the momentous things that might happen during their visit. Little did they know when something did happen, for the courtroom was too small to admit more than a fraction of their number. But the connoisseurs knew and were present. Stanley Reed, Robert H. Jackson and James W. Morris, top-flight attorneys of the Department of Justice, all had pre-empted front seats. Present also were Senator Robert Wagner of New York, Chinese Ambassador Sao-ke Alfred Sze and many another who expected interesting developments. Prime event they hoped...
Lawyer Eugene Stanley-onetime district attorney of New Orleans, who quit when Long appointed an entire staff of Longsters to serve under him-recently culminated his old war with the Long machine by setting out to kill Long's primary election law. As attorney for John W. Ward, candidate for mayor of Alexandria in primaries to be held next week, Mr. Stanley got his case against Long's primary law up to the State supreme court. For the State Constitution says: "the Legislature shall enact laws to secure fairness in party primary elections...
Alighting from an ordinary railway carriage, the King of the Belgians drove straight to his Embassy in London. There Leopold III had in to dinner that night British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, British Opposition Leader Major Clement Attlee, a few such fascinating British parliamentary figures as Winston Churchill, plus a British Foreign Office contingent: Mr. Eden, Lord Cranborne, Mr. Orme Garton Sargent, etc. etc. After vigorous general discussion at table, King Leopold later in the evening drew aside and got down to cases with the British expert on the issues in question, Mr. Orme Sargent...
This was difficult, since British editors felt they had to print and British news agencies felt they had to distribute such information as that in the House of Commons last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet was shouted at by War-time Prime Minister David Lloyd George in words which could scarcely fail to vex Il Duce. "Stand up to Mussolini!", roared the Welshman. "Earn some respect for Britain! ... I'd rather have Italy's anger than Italy's contempt." As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members...
...down under" at the zenith of his infectious charm. Soon a book, With the Prince in New Zealand by Hector Bolitho was selling nicely, but not for a while did the author turn up in England, doing in 1929 a modest volume called The Later Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley and branching out from the Prince of Wales, who remembered him, into quiet purlieus of the Royal Family where a few not very exciting private papers began to be at his disposal...