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Stafford and Cripps
Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.
* 1889 – Stafford Cripps, English politician ( d. 1952 )
He was persuaded to stay on by Stafford Cripps, a wealthy socialist who agreed to pay him an additional salary.
Another balance of payments crisis in 1949 forced Chancellor of the Exchequer, Stafford Cripps, into devaluation of the pound.
Later that year Stafford Cripps tried to persuade Attlee to stand aside for Bevin.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill dispatched Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the war Cabinet who was known to be politically close to Nehru and also knew Jinnah, with proposals for a settlement of the constitutional problem.
* 1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
Patel engaged the British envoys Sir Stafford Cripps and Lord Pethick-Lawrence and obtained an assurance that the " grouping " clause would not be given practical force, Patel converted Nehru, Rajendra Prasad and Rajagopalachari to accept the plan.
To Stalin's amazement, the British Labour government and its pro-Soviet Minister of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps were willing to provide technical information and a licence to manufacture the Rolls-Royce Nene centrifugal-flow jet engine.
His agitations for a united socialist front of all parties of the left ( including the Communist Party of Great Britain ) led to his brief expulsion from the Labour Party in March to November 1939 ( along with Stafford Cripps and C. P.
On 1 November 1950, he was unexpectedly selected to succeed Sir Stafford Cripps as the Labour candidate for Bristol South East, after Cripps stood down because of ill-health.
* Stafford Cripps ( 1889 – 1952 ), British politician
In October 1950, Stafford Cripps was forced to resign as Chancellor of the Exchequer due to failing health, and Gaitskell was appointed to succeed him.
Rowse became a supporter of calls made by the likes of Sir Stafford Cripps for a ' Popular Front ' whereby Labour and Liberals should unite at election time to defeat the National Government.
The counter-trial received much media attention, and Sir Stafford Cripps delivered the opening speech.
* Sir Stafford Cripps ( 1942 )
In 1996 he became a full-time author, writing biographies of Stafford Cripps and Glenda Jackson.
With Stafford Cripps and Harry Pollitt.
In 1936 Gallacher joined members of the Labour Party such as Stafford Cripps and Aneurin Bevan in arguing for giving military help to the Spanish Popular Front government fighting against Franco's Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War.
* Sir Stafford Cripps and the German Admiral's Orgy An article about the scandalous nature of Gustav Siegfried Eins broadcasts and the complaint by British Labour politician Sir Stafford Cripps.

Stafford and became
William Withering – like Small a physician – was already an acquaintance of Darwin, Boulton and Wedgwood when he moved from Stafford to Birmingham and became a member of the Society in 1776.
Captain Harry Stafford found four local businessmen, including John Henry Davies ( who became club president ), each willing to invest £ 500 in return for a direct interest in running the club and who subsequently changed the name ; on 24 April 1902, Manchester United was officially born.
One brother, publisher Daniel Read Anthony, would become active in the anti-slavery movement in Kansas, while a sister, Mary Stafford Anthony, became a teacher and a woman's rights activist.
The youngest to hold office was Edward Stafford, who was 37 years old when he became Premier in 1856.
Originally located within King George County, Falmouth became part of Stafford County when county lines were redrawn in 1776.
This quartet became known as the " Fourth Party " and gained notoriety for leader Lord Randolph Churchill's free criticism of Sir Stafford Northcote, Lord Cross and other prominent members of the " old gang ".
" Make Love to Me ", a 1954 pop song by Jo Stafford, using the New Orleans Rhythm King's music from the 1923 jazz standard " Tin Roof Blues ", became a no. 1 hit.
She became a resident at the Stafford Hotel in St James's Place, near Piccadilly, formerly a British and American forces club during the war.
Most of the best-known national anthems were written by little-known or unknown composers such as Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of " La Marseillaise " and John Stafford Smith who wrote the tune for " The Anacreontic Song ", which became the tune for " The Star-Spangled Banner ".
Washington was elected a Captain of Stafford County Minutemen on September 12, 1775, and became part of the 3rd Virginia Regiment, Continental Line on February 25, 1776, commanding its 7th Company.
He became 6th Earl of Stafford, inheriting a large estate with lands in more than a dozen counties, although over two-thirds of his estate was still occupied by his mother and he only received a reduced income, of less than £ 1260, until he was sixteen.
Sadly the site became a target for vandals and in 1961 Lord Stafford gave the Keep to the local authority.
With the help of her second husband, Benny Stafford, she became an established blues and jazz singer on the West Coast.
Cernan was originally selected as back-up pilot for Gemini 9 with Thomas Stafford, but when the prime crew was killed in a plane crash, they then became the prime crew.
Rochford Hall subsequently became the home of Mary Boleyn, sometime mistress of Henry VIII and ( probably elder ) sister of ( Queen ) Anne Boleyn, during her second marriage to William Stafford.
His father was a younger son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, by his third wife ; an elder son by the second wife ( a daughter of the 1st Duke of Bridgwater ) became the 2nd Marquess of Stafford, and his marriage with the daughter and heiress of the 18th Earl of Sutherland ( Countess of Sutherland in her own right ) led to the merging of the Gower and Stafford titles in that of the Dukes of Sutherland ( created 1833 ), who represent the elder branch of the family.
There was a surviving male heir and still are heirs male but due to the power of the monarchy it was illegally given to the Staffords, Dukes of Buckingham ; and on the attainder of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, in the reign of King Henry VIII, it became merged in the Crown.
Stafford LeRoy Irwin — who had so effectively commanded the 9th Division ′ s artillery at Kasserine — became a successful divisional commander and later went on to higher command as did Cameron Nicholson of Nickforce fame.

Stafford and President
Dr. Wesley K. Stafford is the current President and CEO.
Other prominent persons born and educated in Oamaru include Des Wilson, founder of the UK homelessness charity, Shelter ; Australian Prime Minister Chris Watson ; New Zealand politicians Arnold Nordmeyer and William Steward ; Cardinal Thomas Stafford Williams ; Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of University College London ; and All Blacks rugby union captain Richie McCaw.
* James Cardinal Stafford, an American cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Archbishop of Denver, Bishop of Memphis, and Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore
Members of the Stafford Township Council are Council President Robert Kusznikow, Kathleen Corbett, Stephen Fessler, Henry Mancini, Stan Rutkowski and Joanne Sitek.
Amongst the graduates are included notable people in the fields of arts and sciences like Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett ( Nobel Laureate in Literature ), Ernest Walton ( Nobel Laureate in Physics ), Mairead Maguire ( Nobel Laureate in Peace ), three holders of the office of President of Ireland, and one Premier of New Zealand ( Edward Stafford ); including Jaja Wachuku ( first indigenous Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria and first Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister ).
The President ’ s, Stafford and Marshall Hall were built when the College moved from Madison, New Jersey to South Orange.
# James Francis Stafford ( 1976 – 1982 ) appointed Bishop of Memphis ( later appointed Archbishop of Denver ; later President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity ; created Cardinal ; later appointed Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary ; retired 2 June 2009 )
* 1945-Sir Stafford Cripps, the President of the Board of Trade appointed a Committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Cive Baillieu ( President of the Federation of British Industries-the forerunner of the CBS ) to formulate detailed proposals for the establishment of a central institution for all aspects related to management.
The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Wolverhampton, of Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford, and served under Asquith as Lord President of the Council until 1910.
These office holders are presently Timothy Ellam ( Canada ), President ; Ole Garpestad ( Norway ), Vice-President and Rod Stafford ( USA ), Secretary.
In June 1990, Vice President Quayle and Admiral Richard Truly, then the NASA administrator, asked Stafford to chair a committee to independently advise NASA how to carry out President George H. W.
Stafford was presented with the Medal " For Merit in Space Exploration " from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on April 12, 2011, at the Moscow Kremlin.
* James Francis Stafford: June 3, 1986 – August 20, 1996 ( reassigned as President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity )
* James Cardinal Stafford, Apostolic Penitentiary, former President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and former Archbishop of Denver
Briefly the Klipdrift Diggers ' Republic was declared ( the town assuming the name Parkerton after President Stafford Parker ), before colonial rule was extended here.
His funeral was held at St. John the Evangelist Church in Stamford with Cardinal James Francis Stafford, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, presiding.
Enright went on to produce a few other game shows on his own, including Bumper Stumpers ( a joint venture with Wink Martindale Productions, which taped in Canada and aired on USA Network ) and a short-lived revival of Tic-Tac-Dough, as well as a few projects with former Wheel of Fortune co-host Susan Stafford, who was then Vice President of Public Relations for Barry & Enright Productions.
Other notable figures in the government included: Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons, who replaced Bevin as Foreign Secretary in March 1951 ; Sir Stafford Cripps was initially President of the Board of Trade but replaced Dalton as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1947 ; Hugh Gaitskell held several minor posts before replacing Cripps as Chancellor in 1950 ; Nye Bevan was Minister for Health ; Arthur Greenwood was Lord Privy Seal and Paymaster General while future Prime Minister Harold Wilson became the youngest member of the cabinet in the 20th century ( at the age of 31 ) when he was made President of the Board of Trade in 1947.
* Sir Stafford Cripps: President of the Board of Trade
President Bush declared a state of emergency under the authority of the Stafford Act for the inland parishes of Louisiana.
In response to Governor Blanco's request, President Bush declared a federal state of emergency in Louisiana under the authority of the Stafford Act, which provided a, " means of assistance by the Federal Government to State and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to alleviate the suffering and damage which result from such disasters ,..."

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