Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the glens and greensward and deep foliage of rustic North Wales last week, tired Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin rested with his good wife Lucy. In Whitehall his secretaries did their best to keep down the contents of the red morocco dispatch box which had to be sent to the P.M. each day. The strategy of His Majesty's Government for the time being was comfortably described as "masterly inaction" and yet they were in fact most active...
Married. Arthur Wyndham Baldwin, 32, younger son of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; and Joan Elspeth Tomes, 34; in London...
Meanwhile calm professionals of the British Admiralty and Foreign Office, without even bothering vacationing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, applied quiet screws to Madrid. Although His Majesty's Government have always been able to interpret the laws of blockade to give the Royal Navy freedom of action, they last week easily overwhelmed Spanish Premier Jose Giral, a pharmacist by profession, with awful reasons why it would be not only against international law but positively wicked for Spanish warboats to interfere with British ships on the high seas. At week's end, Premier Giral gave the fullest assurances that British...
...Stanley Baldwin who is considered in House of Commons circles set to retire from the Prime Ministry after the pomp and glory of the Coronation. According to Mr. Seeds, the old-fashioned Prime Minister was speaking strongly to the King about his projected modern holiday with Mrs. Simpson when His Majesty cut the conversation, saying with sarcasm: "Look here, if you don't stop it, Baldwin, I won't attend your beastly old Coronation." The King on his Balkan holiday last week went about with Mrs. Simpson and his other guests taking pictures with a small German camera...
Married. Roger Stanley Firestone, son of Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone; and Mary Seagrave Davis, daughter of U. S. Circuit Court Judge J. Warren Davis; in Lawrenceville...