Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more glacial and forbidding character than his gentlemanly brother, Neville worked harder, became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1923, again in 1931. Last week, still Chancellor, it was he, not Austen, who was being groomed to be next Prime Minister of England and leader of the Conservative Party when Stanley Baldwin steps down...
Queen Mary has not yet dined with the King and Mrs. Simpson, but the Prime Minister and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and Colonel and Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh have. In those circumstances, socialite Britons assumed and freely said last week in Mayfair that, as in the case of Ethiopia, British public opinion is now in course of a great change, and soon the comings and goings of Mrs. Simpson will be a popular topic in the popular press...
Both Gladstone and Disraeli made it a point of honor to be in the House of Commons whenever they were attacked. However, serene Stanley Baldwin went on: "A man for whom I have profound admiration, Abraham Lincoln . . . once observed- for he was subject in his lifetime to no less criticism than I am, and he minded just about as much-'I do the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing it until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything...
...Received the Prime Minister, now very much under political clouds, with far from spontaneous cheers by Conservative M. P.'s of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow! Afterwards the Tory Party whips whispered to their cheering parliamentarians that Stanley Baldwin will not actually resign before he leaves Britain for his usual August vacation in France...
Many an Egyptian statesman has quailed before the British High Commissioner for Egypt, large and resolute Sir Miles Lampson, but last week the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who does not mind being called a "coward", sent Sir Miles from London to Cairo to capitulate in important respects to Egyptian Nationalism...