Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin also in Switzerland for a rest cure, Prime Minister Clement Attlee was left alone to face Britain's mounting economic crisis. By the beginning of August, world confidence in the pound had fallen dangerously. Attlee sent Board of Trade President Harold Wilson to Switzerland to consult with Bevin and Cripps. Attlee felt a decision could no longer be postponed. Cripps was still against devaluation...
...Greep, associate professor of Dental Science, to professor of Dental Science; Dr. Fritz A. Lipmann, associate in Biological Chemistry, to professor of Biological Chemistry at the Massachusetts General Hospital; Dr. Louis K. Diamond '23, assistant professor of Pediatrics, to associate professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital, and Clement A. Smith, assistant professor of Pediatrics, to associate professor of Pediatrics at the Boston Lying-in Hospital...
...London theater last week a quartet of actors, togged out as Prime Minister Clement Attlee with his Ministers Sir Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison, sang a doleful parody of a tune from Oklahoma...
Five Percent? There were signs last week that Britain's Labor leaders were shedding their no longer very rosy illusions. With a general election ahead, it would not be easy for Prime Minister Clement Attlee to call for a temporary retreat in the drive to establish the welfare state. But such a retreat was plainly under...
...more comfortable if you all sat down now." It was a homey assembly, like an outsize church social. The miners sat on the grass, handkerchiefs on their heads as protection against the hot sun. They listened attentively to the rasping voice of Labor Prime Minister Clement Attlee; the silence was broken only when the miners murmured approval as he reminded them how much better working conditions were now than in the bad old days...