Word: aneurin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, T.U.C. leaders faced their government's key men in Sir Stafford Cripps's study in the House of Commons. Beside Cripps at his maroon-topped desk sat Ernest Bevin and Aneurin Bevan, both good union men. Ernie Bevin assumed the role in which he feels most at home: that of the table-thumping, tough-spoken bargainer. This time he was arguing for the employer's side, i.e., the government. When the T.U.C. leaders reiterated their demands, Bevin rumbled that it was up to the workers, through toil and discipline, to support their government...
...garden at No. 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Attlee conferred endlessly with his cabinet. Everyone thought the other fellow's expenses could be cut, but did not see how his own department could struggle along on any less. Foreign Minister Bevin wanted to cut social services, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan insisted that his housing and health plans were "sacrosanct." Attlee tried to mollify everybody. He was still keeping strict secrecy when he took the plan to Buckingham Palace for the King's approval...
Married. Michael Foot, 36, pamphleteering Laborite M.P., onetime editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard, now editor (with Health Minister Aneurin Bevan's wife, M. P. Jenny Lee) of the Weekly Tribune (circ. 18,-ooo); and Jill Craigie, 35, author-director-producer of documentary films (The Way We Live); in London...
...Aneurin Bevan may whisper like "muted flutes" [TIME, Oct. 10], but, as usual, his words are more noteworthy for sound than sense...
Winston Churchill is the descendant of great nobles. Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, a quarter-century younger, is the descendant of Welsh coal miners. Both have a look of pink cherubic majesty; both are enormously effective speakers. In the four years of the Labor government Bevan and Churchill, who hate each other, had not been directly opposed as principals in a Commons debate...