Word: assheton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever its origin, whatever its meaning, the word "spiv" had definitely become a part of the King's English. Last week the Right Honorable Ralph Assheton, M.P., escorted it formally into Hansard's (the British Congressional Record) and immortality. Britain, he said on the floor of Parliament, was sinking into a socialist swamp of "spiv-economy...
...until the stroke of noon on the second day of the conference did Winston Churchill arrive in theater-like Central Hall, Westminster. He made his entrance with the grandeur of royalty. In front, with mincing step, walked Party Chairman Ralph Assheton. Behind came a retinue of Cabinet Ministers. The 2,000 delegates waved agenda sheets in well-bred excitement, burst into a politely modulated For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Rosy-cheeked and beaming, in tail coat and striped trousers, "Winnie" waved back. Then he launched into his speech...
...same day Ralph Assheton, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, told the House of Commons that output of war material had jumped 40% in the last six months. But this report and the shake-up in the Ministry of Production failed to silence the Government's critics. Leftist M.P. Emanuel Shinwell, who calls the Cabinet "Winston's Beauty Parlor," cried: "If the Government believes invasion may come soon, it is useless to . . . draw up elaborate schemes for a more or less remote future...