Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CLEMENT...
Churchill bluntly challenged Prime Minister Clement Attlee to send Parliament home and set the election for early in 1950. Attlee, slumped on the government front bench and looking funereal in his black coat and neat striped trousers, seemed not to hear. But London political dopesters now think the election will be held earlier than Labor had planned. Best guess: February or March...
...alltime record ballet box-office gross of $256,000). In four weeks, Margot Fonteyn and Sadler's Wells had restored as much glitter to Britain's tarnished tiara as any mission the English had sent abroad since the war. In London, cartoonists put Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Ernie Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps* into tutus, hinted that they might do well to make their next visit to the U.S. on tiptoe...
...ballroom guests were not alone in celebrating John Dewey's 90th birthday. Messages had poured in from all over the world-from President Harry Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, from Pandit Nehru, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Harvard's President James B. Conant and from a hundred U.S. colleges and universities. A dozen foreign nations had planned celebrations. Friends were raising $90,000 for an educational Dewey Birthday Fund. Gruffed John Dewey when a reporter asked him what he thought of it all: "I keep thinking it's a damned funny thing to celebrate...
...Wall Street's betting during the British general elections of 1945. Winston Churchill was favored to win over his Socialist opponent Clement Attlee. Among Britain's bookies last week, Winnie's three-year-old colt Colonist II was the odds-on favorite for the Tonbridge Plate at Lingfield Race Course. Like his owner, he came in second. The reason was that a Lingfield, as at all U.S. tracks, the horses run counterclockwise, making left turns. Colonist had won all his races to date (three) on clockwise tracks, which are more common in France and Britain. At Lingfield...