Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernest Bevin: "He always professed he never understood the 'Ouse very much. But he'd get across all right. Provided he could be himself. But the danger was occasionally he'd want to read a Foreign Office brief. It was quite fatal...
...general secretary of Britain's biggest union 21 months ago by the sudden successive deaths of two oldtime platform stalwarts, Cousins is now shooting for national union leadership, a role that has not been filled since his old boss and idol, the late Ernest Bevin, built the T.W.U. and went on to become Labor's Foreign Secretary...
...Yorkshire miner's son who went into the pits at 14, Frank Cousins switched to truck driving when depression made mine jobs scarce. Humping meat and machinery long distances at low pay, he caught the eye of Ernie Bevin just before World War II, and became a T.W.U. organizer along the northern roads. Brought to London in 1944, he scorned the desk, never lost a chance to get out among the men, in truckers' cafes and pubs, on docks and in warehouses...
...boss of the T.W.U., Cousins has modeled himself on Bevin. He is a hard-driving collective bargainer, proud to have won his truckers a 44-hour week, yet lecturing them: "I'll go forward on a 40-hour week without reduction in pay only on condition that every man puts in a full hour's work every hour." In T.U.C. general council meetings he hacks through prejudice and opposition in true ham-handed Bevin fashion: rival leaders complain that he starts off practically every argument with the words, "My union will . . ." Along with belligerence he has shown...
...importance. Once they had been divided-the Africans from the mainland, and the other blacks, who call themselves Shirazis and claim descent from Persian conquerors. The two factions came together under the leadership of 52-year-old Abeid Annane Karume, described by one local Briton as "the Ernie Bevin of the Zanzibar workingmen's movement." The son of a slave woman from Ruanda-Urandi, a longtime merchant seaman whose 22 years at sea carried him to most of the world's ports, including the U.S., Karume eventually rose to quartermaster and then settled down to run a syndicate...