Word: stennett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likes the taste of butter "straight" less than His Majesty's bantamweight, peppery Secretary of State for Dominions & Colonies, the Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery. None the less, Mr. Amery let a great deal of butter melt on his short, sharp tongue, the other day in London, tasting samples at the Australian Butter Show. Prizes had been offered by the Orient Steam- Navigation Co., Ltd. (whose packets ply to Australia) for "the best export butter"-one which would still be "best" after the 13,000-mile voyage to England. Each sample had been point-scored when shipped...
Next morning Colonial Secretary Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery announced to the House of Commons amid cries of "Hear! Hear!" that the bill will not be introduced in anything like its proposed form. Members of Parliament promptly dubbed it "dead...
...public, Mr. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery is a name and nothing more...
...House of Commons took notable action only once last week-spent a great deal of time in debating the Anglo-Irak Treaty (TIME, Feb. 15,) which His Majesty's fiery Colonial Secretary, Colonel Leopold Stennett Amery defended in part as follows: "The rejection of this covenant would make Great Britain ridiculous in the eyes of the League of Nations, contemptible in the eyes of the Turk and odious in the eyes of the people of Irok...
Under the official announcement that His Majesty had been pleased to appoint Lieutenant Colonel the Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery (who is already Secretary of State for the Colonies) Secretary of State for the Dominions, lay a wealth of significance...