Word: craddock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor's candidate for the South Bradford district was George Craddock, a 52-year-old union leader and Methodist lay preacher whose slogan was: "Craddock for Security." South Bradford's working people are still poorly dressed and skimpily fed by American standards, but by & large they are better off than before the war. Craddock reminded them that in 1938 over 20,000 workers were unemployed in Bradford; now only 600 are out of work, most of these unemployable. His Conservative opponent, a wizened Bradford solicitor named John Windle, concentrated on the theme that Britain was in a mess...
When the ballots were counted, the back-door users had given Laborite Craddock 25,335 votes and a clean-cut victory over Tory Windle who polled 19,313. A third candidate, running on the platform of the moribund Liberal Party which is hoping for a political comeback, was disastrously beaten, got less than 3,000 votes...
...keynote was set by Secretary of the Interior Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, who snorted: "Some high-priced lobbying talent and some vicious propaganda have gone into . . . hampering and hamstringing . . . the Government's electric power projects." The N.R.E.C.A.'s President T. E. Craddock declared that the shortage of electric power had reached a state of emergency...