Word: chamberlaine
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Through the '30s, Attlee held the party together, ready to profit from the unparalleled record of blunders by Baldwin and his successor, Neville Chamberlain. In that decade, many Britons learned (as Attlee had learned in 1905) to "reconsider the assumptions" of the British middle class. Through the election of 1945 and into the campaign of 1950, such doubts continued to be a major source of the Labor Party's strength...
...early as 1930; in 1937 and 1938 she observed the rebuilding of the German war machine. She was familiar with most of the major news centers. During the historic days that led to Munich, she was again in Germany, crossing to London in time to hear Prime Minister Chamberlain's famed "peace for our time" speech to the House of Commons. She also visited Latin America and Canada...
...became Moscow correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, then editor of the leftish, ill-starred New York Star. But the interruption was only momentary. Field poured money into Red activities, put on $100-a-plate dinners for C.P. causes, slavishly followed the party line-and married wealthy Edith Chamberlain Hunter of California, who was once a diligent worker in Red vineyards, but who describes herself vigorously as not a Communist...
...pass attack with frequent interceptions. Bob Campbell ran back one of these to a touchdown, after a quick kick by Ted Berkeley had driven Straus to its own goalline. Steve Kurzman, whose passing has highlighted the Lionel offense all season, tossed scoring passes to Hank Green-burg and Dick Chamberlain...
Their pleas had been scanned by a battery of palace secretaries, then checked and passed on to Ascot's Chief Steward, the Duke of Norfolk. The Duke's appointed list was sent to the Lord Chamberlain, then the King & Queen themselves gave the list a final scrutiny. People who had been successfully sued for divorce (not those who did the suing) were ruthlessly weeded out ("The only time I remember to hate my first wife is Ascot Week," gloomed one Londoner who was divorced 30 years...