Word: clemently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commons by winning some 11,900,000 votes but the 6,600,000 votes won by Labor returned only 52 Labor M. P.'s. In the general election just held Labor won 8,700,000 votes to Conservatism's 10,400,000 but Labor Leader Major Clement Attlee now leads a House of Commons group of only 154 while 385 Conservatives sit with the industrial squire who was full-paged by The Illustrated London News with this resounding caption: THE TRUSTED HEAD OF A SOUND GOVERNMENT: THE RT. HON. STANLEY BALDWIN, THE PRIME MINISTER...
...down to business as Labor Leader Clement Attlee attacked "the inadequacy of the King's speech," charged that His Majesty's Government by proceeding with Rearmament are enhancing the world's risks...
...most trusted adviser, fought for a retrial, finally took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism Act. In 1927, after a storm of appeals from famed sympathizers, Governor Clement Calhoun Young gave Anita Whitney a pardon. To the chagrin of many a sympathizer, most of whom were mild liberals, Anita Whitney promptly marched back to the Communist battle line as an orthodox Stalinite. In the election which led to her arrest, she polled over 100,000 votes as her Party...
...British Labor is articulate, the proletariat voted to go to war with Italy when the strongly anti-Fascist Trades Union Congress demanded that full military and naval sanctions be applied if necessary to whip Il Duce (TIME, Sept. 23). Yet last week Labor Party Leader Major Clement Attlee was imploring voters to "Stop War! Vote Labor!" In other words he thought that the mass of British voters could be duped by catch phrases and have no true, proletarian backbone. They have not and John Bull, in John's own expressive slang, is not going to let Labor "sell...
...Clement Attlee, acting leader of his Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Labor Party's official campaign manifesto: "The Government has a terrible responsibility for the present international situation. It did nothing to check the aggression of Japan in the Far East and thus seriously discredited the League of Nations and undermined the collective peace system...