Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Morning Post, an extreme Conservative organ. It began by observing with satisfaction that the British Conservative Party has in fact introduced some measures more radical than most thus far sponsored by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Admitting the President to the generous Santa Claus fraternity of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the Morning Post declared, "When all allowances are made, Roosevelt may justly claim to have introduced a new principle of responsibility for individual welfare into American government and to have won widespread acceptance...
...First Lord of the British Admiralty, dynamic Sir Samuel ("Flying Sam") Hoare, continued last week his series of public speeches, which are proving so popular in the United Kingdom as to build him up handsomely as a candidate to succeed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Sir Samuel has already cheered Navy-loving Britons by telling them that the battleplane has by no means yet supplanted the battleship. Last week he drew thunderous London cheers with a bristling disparagement of both Fascism and Communism...
Members of the House of Commons last week guardedly declared they were receiving so many letters from constituents objecting to the intimacy of the King & Mrs. Simpson that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin must prepare himself to be questioned soon in open Parliament as to whether or not His Majesty is resolved to marry...
...first 100 applicants to send in a special $5 fee (for cost of attending doctors, nurses and ambulance) will be accepted. Among 25 who had paid last week were Tennessee's newly-reelected Senator Nathan Lynn ("Nate") Bachman, Federal Judge George Caldwell Taylor of Knoxville, Mrs. William Stanley, 30-year-old wife of a University of Tennessee entomologist. Participants must also possess a State hunting license (resident $2, nonresident $15), may bag one boar each. No pigstickers, the Tennessee huntsmen may carry rifles of .25 calibre and up or automatic shotguns, take their chances on foot or on horseback...
...followed his father into the mines. When Big Tony was 17 the Grzebyks moved to Detroit, and the family have been automobile workers ever since. Big Tony has been at Plymouth for six years. His brother Pete works at Briggs Manufacturing, his brother Frank at Thompson Products. His brother Stanley is not old enough to work. All the Grzebyks except Peter, who is married, live with their widowed mother in a six-room frame house at No. 5028 Belmont St. That is about two miles from the Plymouth plant, and Big Tony Grzebyk walks it, carrying his supper of three...