Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that for reporters to get anything of a personal nature out of the Treasury is all but impossible. Last week, however, they found Neville Chamberlain willing to confirm the Irishman's tale in all details. Jubilant were the Chancellor's friends, now busy grooming him to succeed Stanley Baldwin before long as Prime Minister, but fearful that frosty Mr. Chamberlain lacks the human appeal necessary to hold the highest office in Great Britain with success. After his spontaneous duck-pond heroism they all felt immensely more hopeful, and London newspapers blazed out with the first human interest story...
Hearst Columnist Merryle Stanley Rukeyser told the earnest delegates that the Administration was "motivated by repression and tends to stratify our society...
...Britain, France and Italy might have resumed their "Stresa Front" against the ambitions of Adolf Hitler. Advantages of "The Deal" were so obvious, and it had been so entirely conceived by the best professional brains of Whitehall, that astonishment was the mood of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin when he discovered that British public opinion considered this a "Dirty Deal," betraying not only Ethiopia but also the British voter who had balloted for honest Stanley Baldwin in the belief that his Siegfried Eden, plus the League of Nations, plus the British Navy were going to bluff Benito Mussolini clean...
...what goes on quickly reaches the ears of everyone who matters without benefit of newspapers. There was no need last week to advertise that No. 18 Cadogan Gardens is for sale. Still less need to explain this little fact's large significance. It meant that esteemed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who in his lovable way makes from time to time such disastrous bumbles, had decided to call back into the cabinet "The Man Who Was Right...
Complicating the situation was Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain's ambition to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister. Chances for this would be bettered if Sir Samuel Hoare came a cropper, for he was then Mr. Chamberlain's chief rival to be future occupant of No. 10 Downing St. Something had to be decided quickly and Chancellor Chamberlain's respected halfbrother, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter and Nobel Peace Prizeman, was zealous in telling the befuddled Stanley Baldwin what a dirty, dirty deal the whole thing really was. In an amazing House of Commons...