Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister of Labor George Isaacs, 62. Isaacs, who is a leader of the powerful Trades Union Congress, began his ministerial career by settling a serious railwaymen's strike twelve hours after taking office. A onetime printer's devil, he went to Buckingham Palace for his seals of office in a grey flannel suit, because "I hadn't the time to get myself up all posh...
...London flew Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to give King George VI a firsthand report of the Big Three meeting. Then, back at No. 10 Downing Street, he waited for the election count. Next evening, when defeat was sure, he went back to Buckingham Palace to resign and hand over to the King the seals of office. His Majesty offered him the Order of the Garter. Churchill refused the dignity. An hour later he issued a statement...
...Three meeting would last perhaps two weeks. After that, Harry Truman would go to London, where a guest room at Buckingham Palace was being put in readiness. And there were hints of further travels to come...
...Buckingham Palace, he was delighted at the way Queen Victoria sang his songs ". . . beautifully in tune . . . and with very nice expression. Only where ... it goes down to D and then comes up again . . . she sang D-sharp each time; and because the first two times I gave her the note, the last time, sure enough, she sang D-where it ought to have been D-sharp. But except for this ... it was really charming...
...emphatic refusal to continue in his Coalition Government until the Japanese war was won (TIME, May 28), Prime Minister Winston Churchill moved decisively. First he canceled the fortnight's holiday he had planned in the south of France. Then, twice in a single day, he drove formally to Buckingham Palace-at noon to resign, four hours later to accept King George VI's invitation to form a new government...