Word: acland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Common Wealth Party elected its first Member of Parliament: R.A.F. Warrant Officer John Loverseed defeated Thomas Peacock, the candidate endorsed by Winston Churchill's predominantly conservative National Government. What the people of Eddisbury voted for was best explained by Common Wealth's zealous founder, Sir Richard Acland (who holds a Commons seat as a Liberal). Said...
Last year Priestley and Acland channeled their strength in a merger: the Common Wealth Party. Unhappy in the common harness, Priestley resigned. Sir Richard took sole charge...
There was to be a by-election at Eddisbury. A routine but necessary preliminary was a motion in the House of Commons, authorizing the Speaker to issue a writ for the by-election. Last week, when this motion was put, Sir Richard Acland popped up and made Eddisbury's by-election a national topic...
...wealthy man is Parliament's tall, bespectacled Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 36-year-old leader of Britain's new share-the-wealth Commonwealth Party. The social-minded M.P. inherited $80,000 when he was 25, owns vast estates that have been in his family for 400 years. Last week he gave the Aclands' 17,000 acres, worth about $1,000,000, to his country, announced that he was without an income other than the $2,400 a year he earns as an M.P. "I shall be a workingman, nothing else," he said proudly, prepared to move...
...Writer J. B. Priestley, rich and liberal Sir Richard Acland and socialist M.P. Vernon Bartlett. the Common Wealth is demanding that one-third of the House of Commons resign and stand for re-election...