Word: chifley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to picking the King's Governor General for the Dominion, the Australian Labor Party wanted no "foreigners" to succeed the Duke of Gloucester (whose chief of staff had been charged with an unfair labor practice after a row with his valet). So Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley, an ex-locomotive engineer, produced from the Labor Party's own marsupial pouch the new Governor General, William John McKell, Prime Minister of New South Wales...
King George had gently suggested that his representative be someone less active in party politics than Billy McKell. When Chifley, who under the Statute of West minster has the last word, overruled the King, official London was quietly horrified. (An editor privately muttered: "If the King suggests, dammit, that should be enough...
Called into the dispute by the Council, the Prime Minister (and ex-locomotive driver) Joseph B. Chifley, himself a union man, talked it over with Brigadier Schreiber, heard his denial of the Fields' charges. The Council officially: (1) blacklisted the whole Schreiber household by denying it all union services, such as delivery of groceries, household repairs, gardening chores; 2) ordered the Kingston to reinstate Field on threat of extending the boycott to three Canberra hotels; 3) requested the Prime Minister to send Schreiber back where he came from-England...
...onetime driver of the crack Sydney-Melbourne express became Prime Minister of Australia last week. By a 3-to-1 vote, Joseph Benedict ("Chif") Chifley was chosen by the Parliamentary Labor Party to succeed the late John Curtin...
...years since he left the engine cab for politics, Chifley has not lost his capacity for hard work or his liking for the dark suits all Australian engine drivers seem to wear off duty. As wartime Treasurer, he and his wife set Australians an example in austerity by living on $8 a week. A bone-&-marrow union man, he regards capitalists as "ordinary blokes" who will embrace socialism of their own free will. With Chif at the political throttle, the Commonwealth looked set for another long haul on the leftist limited...