Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's Government on the do-nothing charge. Next the House of Commons was told last week that the ?2,000,000 ($10,000,000) recently given by Lord Nuffield ("Henry Ford of Great Britain") to succor the Depressed Areas and as a personal tribute to Stanley Baldwin (TIME, Jan. 4) is going to be used by the Nuffield Trustees in conjunction with a scheme in which Government funds will be used to buy up to 25% of the capital stock of new factories set up in the areas Edward VIII used to tour. South Wales...
...British popular mind, not only King Edward's determination to marry Mrs. Simpson but also his declaration that "something must be done" for the Depressed Areas of the United Kingdom set the Baldwin Cabinet against His Majesty, led to his abdication (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.) Last week the Prime Minister did what he could to evaporate this popular view by submitting to the House of Commons a White Paper intended to "do something" for the Depressed Areas and based in great part on the advice of Sir Malcolm Stewart. It was he whom King Edward summoned just before...
...know their constituents are eager for Rearmament jobs, they know these toilers are also for Peace, and at the tail-end of last week's debate Labor Party Leader Major Clement Attlee mustered practically his followers' full strength behind a motion to censure the Baldwin Cabinet on the grounds that their Rearmament program is: 1) dealing a blow to the League of Nations; 2) raising the cost of living in the United Kingdom, 3) preparing the way for an eventual new Depression more disastrous than the last. By a vote of 241 to 117 this Labor motion...
...Continent Mr. Eden's words were taken as a declaration no less ringing and personally sincere than he made when he honestly thought the United Kingdom would fight to save League prestige and the independence of Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935, et ante). At that time Prime Minister Baldwin earned his nickname "Old Sealed Lips," and recently No. 1 British Political Cartoonist Low merrily drew First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare and Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain resealing the Prime Minister...
...Portsmouth (his mother visited him, went up to his room to say goodnight, and "I flung up an arm to guard off the cuff I had been trained to expect"), they immediately rescued him, took him off to a country cottage. There he met his cousin, one Stanley Baldwin. At 11 Rudyard was sent to boarding school, at Westward Ho!, a new school mainly for boys from Army families, memorialized in Stalky & Co. After graduation, instead of going on to a university, Kipling sailed back to India and his first job, on the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette...