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Glossary of People: Ma The election of 1924 put him out of office but he returned to power in 1929. He responded to the capitalist crisis of 1931 by leading a minority on the right-wing into a coalition with the Conservatives on the basis of economic policies which meant the impoverishment of the working class. She was raised in a conservative environment in Ireland, moved to Paris as a young adult and there married Count Markievicz. www.marxists.org /glossary/people/m/a.htm

:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄::: The Conservative government was defeated in the United Kingdom general election, 1929 1929 General Election. Two years later, in the United Kingdom general election, 1924 General Election of 1924, he was elected to represent Epping (where there is now a statue of him) as a "Constitutionalist" with Conservative backing. He was also an outspoken supporter of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom Edward VIII during the Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII Abdication Crisis, leading to some speculation that he might be appointed Prime Minister if the King refused to take Baldwin's advice and consequently the government resigned. www.mauspfeil.net /Winston_Churchill.html   (9044 words)

Archontology.org: History of BALDWIN, Stanley: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database Following the defeat of the Labour Government in the General Election, Baldwin was asked to form his second administration and became Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury on 4 Nov 1924. The General Election of 30 May 1929 over the issues of unemployment and the Trade Disputes Act made the balance of power dependent on the Liberals (Labour 287, Conservative 260, Liberal 59, others 9) and Baldwin resigned on 5 Jun 1929. On 15 Jan 1924 the Government was defeated at the end of the debate on the Address and Baldwin resigned (16 Jan 1924). www.archontology.org /nations/uk/bpm/baldwin.php   (733 words)

William Clive Bridgeman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In October 1922, Bridgeman was one of the leaders of the Conservative revolt against the coalition's leadership, and he became Home Secretary in the new Conservative governments of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin from 1922 until January 1924. In 1911, Bridgeman became an opposition whip, and became a government whip in the Asquith coalition government in 1915. Bridgeman retired from the Commons in 1929, and that same year was created Viscount Bridgeman, of Leigh in the County of Shropshire. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Clive_Bridgeman,_1st_Viscount_Bridgeman   (386 words)

John Cain (senior) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cain was Assistant Minister for Agriculture in the short-lived minority Labor government of George Prendergast in 1924, Minister without Portfolio in the first minority Labor government of Edmond Hogan from 1927 to 1928, and Minister for Railways and Minister for Electrical Undertakings in the second Hogan government from 1929 to 1932. Cain's government was hampered by the hostility of the Legislative Council (which was elected on a restricted property-based franchise and so always had a conservative majority), and also by tensions within his own party. John Cain (19 January 1882- 4 August 1957), Australian politician, was the 33rd Premier of Victoria, and was the first Australian Labor Party Leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Cain_(senior)   (1404 words)

John Cain (senior) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cain was Assistant Minister for Agriculture in the short-lived minority Labor government of George Prendergast in 1924, Minister without Portfolio in the first minority Labor government of Edmond Hogan from 1927 to 1928, and Minister for Railways and Minister for Electrical Undertakings in the second Hogan government from 1929 to 1932. Cain's government was hampered by the hostility of the Legislative Council (which was elected on a restricted property-based franchise and so always had a conservative majority), and also by tensions within his own party. John Cain (19 January 1882 - 4 August 1957), Australian politician, was the 33rd Premier of Victoria, and was the first Australian Labor Party Leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Cain_(senior)   (1404 words)

John Cain (senior) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cain was Assistant Minister for Agriculture in the short-lived minority Labor government of George Prendergast in 1924, Minister without Portfolio in the first minority Labor government of Edmond Hogan from 1927 to 1928, and Minister for Railways and Minister for Electrical Undertakings in the second Hogan government from 1929 to 1932. Cain's government was hampered by the hostility of the Legislative Council (which was elected on a restricted property-based franchise and so always had a conservative majority), and also by tensions within his own party. John Cain (19 January 1882 - 4 August 1957), Australian politician, was the 33rd Premier of Victoria, and was the first Australian Labor Party Leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Cain_(senior)   (1404 words)

Articles - John Cain (senior) Cain was Assistant Minister for Agriculture in the short-lived minority Labor government of George Prendergast in 1924, Minister without Portfolio in the first minority Labor government of Edmond Hogan from 1927 to 1928, and Minister for Railways and Minister for Electrical Undertakings in the second Hogan government from 1929 to 1932. Cain's government was hampered by the hostility of the Legislative Council (which was elected on a restricted property-based franchise and so always had a conservative majority), and also by tensions within his own party. John Cain (19 January 1882 - 4 August 1957), Australian politician, was the 33rd Premier of Victoria, and was the first Australian Labor Party Leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. www.poncier.com /articles/John_Cain_%28senior%29   (1395 words)

Stanley Baldwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Baldwin remained Prime Minister until the opening session of the new Parliament in January 1924 when the government was defeated on a confidence vote and he resigned immediately. Initially Baldwin also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer whilst he sought to recruit the former Liberal Chancellor Reginald McKenna to join the government, but when this failed he instead appointed Neville Chamberlain. At a meeting of Conservative MPs at the Carlton Club in October Baldwin announced that he would no longer support the coalition and famously condemned Lloyd George for being a "dynamic force" that was bringing destruction across politics. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanley_Baldwin   (1698 words)

John Wheatley Wheatley was a passionate politician and in June 1923 he was suspended from the House of Commons for calling the Conservative government's proposed cut in grants to child-welfare centres as murder. Wheatley criticised MacDonald's move to the right and as a result was not appointed to the Labour Government formed after the 1929 General Election. Wheatley's Housing Act which became law in August 1924, was one of the few achievements of the first Labour Government. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUwheatley.htm   (1629 words)

John Wheatley Wheatley was a passionate politician and in June 1923 he was suspended from the House of Commons for calling the Conservative government's proposed cut in grants to child-welfare centres as murder. Wheatley criticised MacDonald's move to the right and as a result was not appointed to the Labour Government formed after the 1929 General Election. Wheatley's Housing Act which became law in August 1924, was one of the few achievements of the first Labour Government. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUwheatley.htm   (1629 words)

Stanley Baldwin MacDonald's Labour government lost the next election, and Baldwin was returned as Prime Minister in November 1924, holding his second premiership until 1929. Baldwin was the de facto figurehead of the 1930s National Government, and properly regained the premiership after the 1935 election. Born to a family of rich, Conservative industrialists, Stanley Baldwin was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page137.asp   (706 words)

Stanley Baldwin MacDonald's Labour government lost the next election, and Baldwin was returned as Prime Minister in November 1924, holding his second premiership until 1929. Baldwin was the de facto figurehead of the 1930s National Government, and properly regained the premiership after the 1935 election. Born to a family of rich, Conservative industrialists, Stanley Baldwin was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. www.number-10.gov.uk /output/page137.asp   (706 words)

Austen Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chamberlain did, however, return to government in Stanley Baldwin's second government, serving in the important office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1924 to 1929. Chamberlain is often cited as being the only modern leader of the Conservative Party not to become Prime Minister until William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard, but this is technically inaccurate as he was not overall leader. The son of Birmingham's Mayor Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Neville Chamberlain, Austen was first elected to parliament as a Liberal Unionist in 1892. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austen_Chamberlain   (699 words)

Chamberlain, Sir Austen on Encyclopedia.com From 1924 to 1929, Chamberlain was foreign secretary under Stanley Baldwin. Although he succeeded Andrew Bonar Law as Conservative leader in 1921, he opposed the Conservative withdrawal that brought down Lloyd George 's government in 1922. (chām´berlĬn) (Joseph Austen Chamberlain), 1863-1937, British statesman; son of Joseph Chamberlain and half brother of Neville Chamberlain. www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/chamberla1.asp   (480 words)

Austin Chamberlain Chamberlain served as foreign secretary under Baldwin between 1924 and 1929. Along with Joseph Chamberlain he moved to the Conservative Party and served under Arthur Balfour as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1903-06). When Andrew Bonar Law retired in 1921 Chamberlain became leader of the Conservative Party. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRchamberlainA.htm   (169 words)

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! After the war, in 1922, he became air minister in Conservative governments, holding the post until 1929 (except for the brief Labour rule in 1924) and helping to build Britain's air force. Hoare came back into the government in June 1936 as first lord of the admiralty and then, in May 1937, under Neville Chamberlain, as home secretary. also called (from 1944) Viscount Templewood Of Chelsea British statesman who was a chief architect of the Government of India Act of 1935 and, as foreign secretary (1935), was criticized for his proposed settlement of Italian claims in Ethiopia (the Hoare–Laval Plan). www.britannica.com /ebc/print_toc?tocId=9040648   (169 words)

Stanley Baldwin MacDonald's Labour government lost the next election, and Baldwin was returned as Prime Minister in November 1924, holding his second premiership until 1929. Baldwin was the de facto figurehead of the 1930s National Government, and properly regained the premiership after the 1935 election. Born to a family of rich, Conservative industrialists, Stanley Baldwin was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. www.number-10.gov.uk /output/page137.asp   (706 words)

Austen Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chamberlain did, however, return to government in Stanley Baldwin's second government, serving in the important office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1924 to 1929. Chamberlain is often cited as being the only modern leader of the Conservative Party not to become Prime Minister until William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith, but this is technically inaccurate as he was not overall leader. Chamberlain and his wife were rather sympathetic to fascist Italy, and Chamberlain famously said that Benito Mussolini was "a man with whom business could be done". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austen_Chamberlain   (697 words)

Emanuel Shinwell He lost office after the Conservative Party victory in the 1951 General Election but held his seat in the House of Commons and between November 1964 and March 1967 was Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Germany and Italy were supplying arms, aircraft, and men to the Spanish Fascists, and Blum considered that any action on the Franco-Spanish border on behalf of the Republican Government would bring imminent danger of retaliatory moves by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany on France's eastern flank. Defeated in the 1924 General Election, Shinwell returned to Parliament in April 1928. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUshinwell.htm   (697 words)

Reader's Companion to American History - -MELLON, ANDREW In 1929, Mellon's theory of prosperity through upper-bracket tax cuts, as set forth in Taxation: The People's Business (1924), seemed vindicated. He brought business methods to government and succeeded, with the aid of an able group of subordinates, in implementing a conservative program of fiscal reforms. Mellon, a staunch conservative, entered politics through connections with such Pennsylvania Republican leaders as Boies Penrose and Philander C. Knox; through their influence he was appointed secretary of the treasury by Warren G. Harding in 1921. college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_058800_mellonandrew.htm   (450 words)

Woodlawn Cemetery - James Thomas Milton Anderson Following the non-confidence vote against the provincial government in 1929, Anderson's Conservatives formed the government, with Anderson as Premier. In 1926 he was chosen as leader of the Conservative party and in 1927 he became house leader. In 1924 Anderson was elected as member for Saskatoon to the provincial Legislature. www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca /arts/scha/politics/jtmanderson.html   (450 words)

Evelyn Waugh in his Own Words : The Monitor Interview in Full : William Joynson-Hicks (1865-1932, created Viscount Brentford in 1929) was Home Secretary in the Conservative government of 1924-29. Powell was another of the few contemporary writers whom Waugh admired. www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk /CompleteMonitor.htm   (3030 words)

The Charlock's Shade: Evelyn Waugh sets the record straight on Joyce and Stein a) William Joynson-Hicks (1865-1932, created Viscount Brentford in 1929) was Home Secretary in the Conservative government of 1924-29. thecharlocksshade.typepad.com /the_charlocks_shade/2003/11/evelyn_waugh_se.html   (1629 words)

Clement Attlee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Attlee served in the first two Labour governments, as under-secretary of state for war in 1924 with Ramsay MacDonald, then as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and later Postmaster General in the 1929 to 1931 MacDonald government. The third earl (a member of the Conservative Party) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the few hereditary peers elected to the House under an amendment to the 1999 House of Lords Act. Attlee led the party in opposition until 1955, when he retired from the commons and was elevated to the peerage to take his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood on 16 December 1955. www.phatnav.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Clement_Attlee   (1629 words)

John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He was Minister for Transport in the governments of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin from 1922 until January 1924, when Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government took office. For most of Stonehaven's term Bruce seemed firmly entrenched in office, but in September 1929 he was unexpectedly defeated on the floor of the House of Representatives, and asked Stonehaven for a dissolution. On his return to Britain he was appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party, and elevated to the title Viscount Stonehaven. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baron_Stonehaven   (601 words)

Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Stanley Baldwin Baldwin remained Prime Minister until the opening session of the new Parliament in January 1924 when the government was defeated on a confidence vote and he resigned immediately. Baldwin is known to history chiefly through the eyes of his chief rival and antagonist, Winston Churchill, who desired the premiership, but spent much of the 1930's as a backbencher in the Conservative Party, despite having held portfolios in both war and peace. Baldwin became Prime Minister again and remained in office until 1929. fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Stanley_Baldwin   (1825 words)

A Far Fetched Resolution He served as colonial secretary in the 1924 Labour administration and Lord Privy seal in the 1929-31 administration. Labour people still Labour and we're going to have to wait for polling day to see if there's enough of them out there to ensure that the genuine good this Labour government is doing isn't lost in a maelstrom of, what largely amounts to the odd cock up. Antonia has already blogged the details of this but Charles Steele the Conservative candidate in the ward where I'm living in Oxford spent some time at in one of Her Majesty's local establishments the other week after having a number of names on his nominations queried, apparently by the people who's names they were. afarfetchedresolution.blogspot.com   (3412 words)

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