Word: clemente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chill, gilded chamber of the House of Commons was hushed as the neat grey man in the neat grey business suit reached the climax of his speech. In the packed galleries tense, brown-skinned men leaned forward to catch every word. Prime Minister Clement Attlee's thin voice carried a statement fat with destiny. He read...
...Clement Attlee had another paper to read. There would be a new Viceroy in India for the 15-month period of Britain's withdrawal. Bluntly dismissed (but rewarded with an earldom) was taciturn Field Marshal Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, the one-eyed soldier who did not always see eye-to-eye with his Labor Government bosses in London, or with Indian leaders. In his place would be handsome, 46-year-old "Dickie" Mountbatten (Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma), second cousin of King George...
...Little. For the Pennsy's woes, President Martin Withington Clement had a two-word explanation: "Government regulation." When rail workers were awarded an 18½? wage increase in mid-1946, it was made retroactive to Jan. 1. But ICC delayed giving the railroads a 17.6% rate increase until last December. Furthermore, said Clement, additional boosts are necessary...
...John Bull freezing within the Gothic confines of his Empire should be able to discern American responsibilities in the British crisis. As an expedient, President Truman's offer of coal should be transmitted again, this time coupled with promises of equal aid to the continent so that Mr. Clement Attlee will not be forced to decline the offer in face of greater need elsewhere. And if western Europe can be bound into an economic self-sufficiency only by efficient English production, the Welsh and Sussex mines must be brought out of the 19th century. A further British loan, according...
...week. For $3,600,000, it bought all the Saskatchewan holdings of the power network of Canadian Utilities Ltd. This gave the government's Power Commission possession of the last private power system of any consequence in the province. Then, in the provincial legislature, bantam-sized Premier Thomas Clement Douglas told how things had been going with the other enterprises* his government has socialized in the past 2½ years. Things were going pretty well...