Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palace, driving at terrific speed to his snuggery. Lights out at 2:13 a. m. The daily Court Circular, which is supposed to chronicle all important movements of members of the Royal Family, omits all of the above, fails to appear. The House of Commons: There are cheers for Stanley ("Old Sealed Lips") Baldwin and louder cheers for his political foe Winston Churchill, who has got 60 M. P.'s to sign with him a round robin telling the King that if he accepts Mr. Baldwin's resignation Mr. Churchill is ready to obey a command to become...
That's the story." Canberra, the Capital of Australia: Devout Catholic Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons convenes an emergency session of the Australian Parliament for this week and keeps in continuous touch with Stanley Baldwin by short-wave radio...
London: Throngs demonstrate against Stanley Baldwin for the first time since the General Strike. In front of his official residence, No. 10 Downing St., they chant: "The King is right, Baldwin is wrong!" They march on to sing: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow! in front of empty Buckingham Palace. They swing around into Piccadilly and at No. 145 bawl loud enough for the Duke & Duchess of York to hear: "Stand by him! We want King Edward! Perish the politicians...
...raised first by the Government but by His Majesty himself in a conversation with me some weeks ago when he first informed me of his intention to marry Mrs. Simpson whenever she should be free. . . . Deep and respectful sympathy with His Majesty at this time." As the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin is now obviously in that pivotal position he assumes when he may or may not decide to switch the policy of His Majesty's Government completely around, as in the case of Italy & Ethiopia (TIME. Dec. 30), the House senses that "Old Sealed Lips" may again extricate himself...
...drama built around the after effects of a miscarriage of justice in a situation paralleling the Sacco-Vanzetti case, Winterset starts with a quick outline of a 1920 payroll robbery. Three gangsters - Trock Estrella (Eduardo Ciannelli), Shadow (Stanley Ridges), and Garth Esdras (Paul Guilfoyle) - steal a car that belongs to Bartolomeo Romagna. After they have murdered the paymaster, they abandon the car. Romagna, partly because he is a radical, is convicted of the crime. His small son is standing on the hill above the prison the night he dies in the electric chair. Obsessed by the desire to clear...