Word: swinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commons: ¶ Cheered whirlwind efforts to secure British control of the sea and air by Air Minister Viscount Swinton and First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare, who is popularizing his new slogan "BRITAIN MEANS BUSINESS...
...that this appointment was a "Baldwin bumble" and that Sir Thomas may be expected to "out-bumble Baldwin." Particularly scathing was Winston Churchill, whose friends had ardently angled to get him the appointment. Silently disappointed were such publicly groomed aspirants as Sir Samuel Hoare and the Air Minister, Viscount Swinton...
...grand total is $35,000,000 spent during the past seven months for "special measures" undertaken by Viscount Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper and Air Secretary Viscount Swinton solely because of "Eden Diplomacy." All three Ministers rose in the House to ask still more money for their departments. Meanwhile last week Foreign Secretary Eden replied to the recent Italian note in which Ambassador Dino Grandi argued that the British naval demonstration in the Mediterranean is not justified under any part of the League Covenant and asked His Majesty's Government how they account...
Africa thus ceased to be the insatiable killer's paradise. Said Britain's Secretary of State for Air, Viscount Swinton: ''It is the man who has made the killing of animals and the getting of trophies his life's profiteering work . . . whom we have got to meet...
EYEWITNESS - Major-General Sir Ernest D. Swinton - Doubleday, Doran ($3). The story of the tanks in the World...