Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morrison lost both the Ministry of Food and the Chancellery of the Duchy of Lancaster, but Neville Chamberlain and Captain Margesson found a seat for this faithful Party hack in the Postmaster Generalship, where he cannot be heckled as farmers and consumers have heckled him. Postmaster General Major George Clement Tryon was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with the additional sop of a baronage...
...Agency has friends in high places. Labor Leader Clement R. Attlee and Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair objected on the ground that Britain had no right to put into effect its last year's White Paper zonings in Palestine without first obtaining the consent of the League of Nations, under which the country is held as a mandate. Mr. Attlee forced the Government to agree on a general debate this week, and introduced a motion of censure which will amount to the first vote of confidence in the Government to be held since the war's start. Even...
Presidents of the other roads (New York Central's Williamson, Pennsylvania's Clement), who can see no sense in risking their much larger revenues in the difficult game of getting more traffic, were peeved at the decision. But, oddly enough, they were no more peeved than the big Eastern bus lines, which get most of their business from undercutting train rates, may need to lower their own fares...
...flash in the pan, the discussion was elaborately organized to enlist the opinions of such illustrious Britons as the Archbishop of York (Canterbury declined), George Bernard Shaw, Laborites Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison, Harold Nicolson, J. B. S. Haldane, Novelist Rose Macaulay, Editor Basil Kingsley Martin of the New Statesman and Nation, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Archibald Main. Points on which these worthies and the debaters agree will then go to a drafting committee of nine headed by Socialist Viscount John Sankey. (Pundit Wells resigned that post last week after a Herald blast at Chamberlain...
When retired General Abel Clement-Grandcourt of the French Army enlisted as a private after the outbreak of World War II, Le Journal cracked: "And Corporal Hitler has enlisted as Generalissimo." Honorably discharged a month ago because of "feeble health," irrepressible General Clement-Grandcourt, 66, turned up last week in Helsinki as a private in the Finnish Army...