Word: aclands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addressee was Sir Richard Acland, 15th baronet of his line, who got 24,692 votes against 23,017 for his Tory opponent Frank Taylor. The Conservative appeal in suburban Gravesend, a Tory stronghold until the Labor victory in 1945, had been directed mainly at the housewives. Taylor became known as "Tater Taylor" because he lugged his 3-lb. weekly spud ration around with him on the hustings. The housewives were disgusted enough with shortages,* but not enough of them saw any reason to suppose that Tory M.P.s would furnish more potatoes than Laborites...
...readers conduct services (which Lay Reader Acland does thrice monthly), but may not administer the sacraments...
...paganism, and thought it must be provoked by a genuine interest in religion. They proved to be right. So many readers wrote about "J.W." that the Mirror looked around for the right man to answer him and start a religious column. The choice: tall, gaunt, humorless Sir Richard Acland...
...Richard Acland (leader of Britain's Common Wealth Party). This "versatile adventurer would apparently stop at nothing in his thirst for political leadership. Now, in the autumn of 1942, he reappears, happily leading a jumble of discontented people who find the existing administration of British affairs unendurable. The jumble is called 'Common Wealth.' . . . His intelligence is very limited and unstable. He is as imitative as a monkey, any claptrap that seems to be popular goes into his bag and any 'religious' cant, and his ambition for 'leadership' is uncontrollable...
...House of Commons last week, Winston Churchill parried a thrust at his close association with Publisher Lord Beaverbrook (TIME, April 10). Socialistic Sir Richard Acland, Common Wealth Party leader, sharply asked if the rule which bars Cabinet Ministers from engaging in journalism had been suspended to favor the brash, busy Beaver and his London Daily Express. Said Churchill: "The proprietorship of newspapers has never been held to be journalism in the ordinary sense...