Word: battler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gawking sightseers. There was little old (69) Wilfred Burke, a colorless trade unionist whom rotation had made chairman of the Labor Party. Three others were hard-knuckled unionists: knobby Harry Earnshaw of the textile workers, big, handsome Harry Franklin of the railwaymen, shrewd, balding Sam Watson, a longtime battler of Communists in Durham's "Little Moscow" coal fields. And there was tall, leggy Dr. Edith Summerskill, onetime Minister of National Insurance and a militant feminist, who has terrified British males of all political hues by demanding that husbands pay their wives wages...
Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Ernest Hemingway's The Battler with Chester Morris...
Last spring, when the odor of influence-peddling and political loans in the RFC finally penetrated Truman's nostrils, he called Battler Symington in as the cleanup man. Symington fired employees who had become entangled in the influence web, and opened loan files to public scrutiny. When he decided that the world's tin producers were gouging the U.S., he slashed the price the RFC would pay for tin. This brought cries of anguish from Bolivia, and got Symington into an argument with the State Department. Now that Symington is leaving, the Bolivians hope to win the argument...
Winnie & Greatness. The Conservatives' biggest campaign gun went off in workaday Liverpool, a Labor stronghold. In the city's sooty stadium, home of champion boxers and second-rate wrestlers, 76-year-old Battler Winston Churchill, looking like a grey kewpie, swung some grandiloquent haymakers at Labor's bungling of the Iranian oil dispute, which the London Observer called a diplomatic defeat in some ways worse than Munich. "It will be my duty," said Winnie, "to expose the melancholy story of inadvertence, incompetence, indecision and final collapse which has marked the policy of our Socialist rulers...
...London, the old (76 years old) Tory battler gathered with party leaders to plot the strategy they hope will send them back to the country's helm. Winnie was in fine, old-fashioned form. He told Britons that the Conservatives could not promise a quick cure for the country's ills. "The road will be hard and uphill," he said. "After a rake's progress . . . the resulting evils cannot be cured by a parliamentary vote or a stroke of the administrative...