Word: aneurin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...street had not changed much. The prostitution trade was as brisk as ever while Eros was hiding out. But if the god had deserted his old post for the duration, he had certainly not been idle elsewhere. Last week, just before Eros returned to Piccadilly Circus, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan was able to announce that, for the first time in 25 years, Britain's birth rate had overtaken its death rate...
...band of British socialists met in Edinburgh. The Ramsay MacDonald government had collapsed. Their movement was wasted by feuds, weighted by inertia; socialism in Britain was moribund. Something had to be done. In desperation they decided to start a tuppenny weekly. To get it going, people like Stafford Cripps, Aneurin Bevan, Ellen Wilkinson, George Russell Strauss and John Strachey chipped in ?10 apiece to buy stock...
Colonel Blimp nearly fainted in his bath: in Health Minister Aneurin Bevan's leftist Tribune had appeared a headline: "Nationalize the M.C.C." The M.C.C. is the Marylebone Cricket Club, blueblooded governing body of the national sport. Wrote poker-faced George Harrison in London's News of the World...
Health Minister Aneurin Bevan had worked hard to win the doctors over. On his side were the prestigious Royal College of Physicians, a majority of medical men in the military services, and most low-income medicos. To reassure opponents, the bill left open to negotiation the key questions of pay and terms of employment under the plan (the B.M.A. vote was on the question of whether to enter such negotiations). To sweeten a provision most obnoxious to doctors-a ban on the sale of practices-Bevan set up a $266,000,000 fund for payments to physicians at retirement...
...Communist John Strachey, Labor's new Food Minister; ailing, aging (74) Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India; austere theoretician Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; redhaired, demonstrative Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, who used to be Morrison's Parliamentary Secretary. Bellicose Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, who is in charge of housing (only one out of five new houses may be privately built), has promised bombed-out Britons 200,000 homes by the end of the year...