Word: aneurin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honorable Hugh Stanley, 24, brother of the Earl of Derby, informed Fox-Strangways that Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan, rabid Socialist and ex-coal-miner, was being entertained at White's. Bevan's host was Sir John Slessor, Air Chief Marshal, who had invited the minister in for a drink after a meeting on R.A.F. manpower problems...
Prime Minister Clement Attlee shuffled his cabinet last week. Aneurin Bevan, who had run the Ministry of Health for five years, became Minister of Labor, in charge of mobilization of manpower. He replaced bumbling George Isaacs, who was shifted to the Ministry of Pensions, with a $5,600 salary cut and loss of cabinet rank. Former Minister of Pensions Hilary Marquand, a little-known, dependable public servant and former economics professor, took over Bevan's Health Ministry. Housing, which had been under the Health Minister's jurisdiction, was shifted to Hugh Dalton, who became Minister of Local Government...
...profession, facing the bankruptcy of a policy, a policy based on the decisions of the coalition government during a war for survival and put into execution by a Minister of Health [Aneurin Bevan] who could not resist the temptation to behave like a Fairy Godmother to an impoverished nation...
Five years of power and responsibility had made Labor's leaders cautious on the once-beloved doctrine of nationalization. At Margate last week a proposal to nationalize the building industry made even the leftists of the Labor Party wince. Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan said: "What you are really saying is 'let's nationalize every industry in Great Britain.'" Cried a voice...
Britain's assured Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Sevan was certain that socialized medicine was getting more popular with British doctors. Said he to a group of Durham miners: "I will almost make you a promise that before very long the British Medical Association will put up a statue . . . called...