Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, who last year outlawed strikes and lockouts for the war's duration, gave no hint of possible action. He had for some time been under fire for failure to deal more strongly with labor upsets. But when 60,000 vitally important producers earning $14.50-$19 a week (better pay in Britain than it is in the U.S.) felt strongly enough to strike against King and Union, the wisest answer was not necessarily "strong" dealing...
...entries in Who's Who between 1928 and 1939. Sample Buchman claim he riddled: "studied at Cambridge University 1921-22." That debate was a Waterloo for Buchmanism. Its 172 followers in Parliament (the fruit of two years' intensive lobbying) were all set to protest Labor Minister Ernest Bevin's refusal to exempt the Group's lay evangelists from military service. When Herbert and Bevin got through, not one of the 172 cared to reply...
Only other candidate often mentioned is plump Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, who has got himself in Dutch with Labor by supporting the Army and Navy policy of taking skilled industrial workers for military service. Last week the Beaver, who wants more & more skilled women for a huge production program in the Midlands, approached open battle with Minister Bevin on the question of woman-power...
When Minister Bevin announced last month that the Group's lay evangelists would not be exempted from military service, there was a great hubbub. To Laborite Bevin's defense sprang Crusader-Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert, Oxford University's Member in Parliament. To Oxonian Herbert the Oxford Group is a bee in the bustle. It riles him to think that Frank Buchman and his brash, eupeptic fishers among the up-&-outs* have the nerve to link themselves implicitly with the great Oxford Movements led by John Wesley and Cardinal Newman...
Like a thunderstorm, the row did not last. Last week Ernest Bevin stood before the House, told it that the Group was the only religious organization that had tried to claim an exemption. When he sat down, not a voice was raised. The Government's position was accepted without a vote...