Word: stillingfleet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his chest expanding under a livid blue shirt Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, patriotic Conservative M. P., proudly surveyed last week 20,000 seething, applauding Britons whom he had summoned to London's mammoth Albert Hall...
...inherited $35,000,000 from the late shipowning Sir Robert Houston, offered "to prevent the Socialist Government from being spoilsports" by paying the Schneider expenses beyond what the Government itself could afford. A deputation headed by Sir Philip Sassoon, chairman of the Royal Aero Club, and Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson visited the Prime Minister. From their meetings Mr. MacDonald emerged with a change of mind. The Government would loan R. A. F. pilots for racing and planes for training, but no money. The Royal Aero Club hurriedly planned a nationwide appeal; the Society of British Aircraft Constructors assumed...