Word: april
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tories went. In the last major election test before next year's general elections, they inflicted a stinging defeat on Britain's Labor government, which was still sore from the beating it took at last month's London County Council elections and other county contests (TIME, April 18). All week, on successive voting days, 7,000,000 Britons went to the polls in Britain's first district and borough elections since 1947. All week, the chant of London newsboys sounded to Laborites like the voice of doom. "Socialists lose 15 towns . . . Sweep takes Stoke-Newington . . . Birmingham...
Winston Churchill sent a little bread-&-butter present, delivered by hand by daughter Sarah, to Bernard Baruch, his host on his recent U.S. trip (TIME, April 4): a 24-by-36-inch Winston Churchill watercolor landscape...
Retailer Levine went to court. Like Florida's Druggist James ("Doc") Webb before him (TIME, April 18), Levine challenged the constitutionality of such price-fixing. Like Doc Webb, he won. Last week, in a unanimous decision, a five-judge appellate court threw the state board's price-fixing powers down the hatch. Unless the decision was reversed, there would soon be a wave of price-cutting all over the state. In July, 29 million gallons of aged whisky laid down right after VE-day would roll on to the market, ready to help the downward push...
...into throwing up the job last spring, no one rushed to apply for it. Outsiders shunned the opening with a firm: "Not me! Not there!" Most of the No. 2 men in the company quit faster than they could be replaced, until all eight vice-presidencies were vacant (TIME, April...
...Berkleys of Broadway. Expert hoofing and whirling by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (TIME, April...