Word: aneurin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alfred Robens, Minister of Labor, succeeding Aneurin Bevan; 40; friendly, open-faced Lancashire man; born and educated (council school) in Manchester; at 16 became clerk and later worked up to director in a Manchester cooperative; at 24 became trade-union organizer; served on Manchester City Council; elected to Parliament, 1945; appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fuel & Power, 1947; a forceful debater, likes to work his garden to soothe his nerves in times of crisis...
...Right Honorable Aneurin Bevan, M.P., Minister of Labor and National Service, having tendered his resignation, the King has been pleased to accept it." With this traditional formula, the biggest internal crisis in the six-year-old Labor regime was made official this week...
...everybody's income after personal exemptions. There will also be higher sales and entertainment taxes, and a jump from 30% to 50% on distributed business profits. He rejected left-wing demands for a soak-the-rich capital levy. Biggest surprise of all, he defied his fiery cabinet colleague Aneurin Bevan by proposing that the public pay half the cost of false teeth and spectacles, hitherto free under the National Health Service...
Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan blustered at a Labor meeting early this month: "I will never be a member of a government which makes charges on the National Health Service for the patient." The words were aimed at Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell, who proposed to tamper with Bevan's onetime baby-the free dentures, spectacles and other medical services which last year cost the Treasury a whopping $1.1 billion...
Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan, usually a hothead orator, softly sneered that finding a reply to Churchill was like "trying to climb up a smooth, flat surface; I can get no hold ... at any point whatever. He went on from generalization to generalization . . ." Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell said: "I have never heard from [Churchill] a speech ... so completely lacking in serious argument." As the government barrage ripped into him, Churchill squirmed, slapped his waistcoat, fumbled in his pockets, finally got to his feet, turned and looked behind him. Spellbound, the entire House watched Winnie's antics. Gaitskell...