Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jubilated Liberal Pundit Harold J. Laski: "The three pivotal economic positions in the Ministry are held by Labor [War Cabinet's Greenwood, Supply's Morrison and Labor's Bevin]. Behind their occupants is the solid support of the trade unions. These are gains of an immense kind. They mean that Labor dominates the economic organization for the conduct...
...tough, one-eyed Herbert Morrison, popular Leader of the London County Council (in effect "Mayor of Greater London"), a Socialist of the same practical stamp as Bevin who keeps in his office a small, framed portrait of Nikolai Lenin, went the job of Churchillizing the new setup. This he did by putting British war industries on a 24-hour production schedule, with twelve-hour shifts, such as are being worked in France and Germany, and sounding off with gruff eloquence: "There is time for nothing now but an intense, concentrated effort of muscle, mind and will. . . . The peace and civilization...