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Died. Harry Frederick Comfort Crook-shank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, 68. rapier-tongued parliamentary leader of Britain's Conservative Party from 1951 till his elevation to the House of Lords in 1955 a 32-year House of Commons veteran whose sardonic debating style elicited from Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell the tribute: "I never knew a man who could say such outrageous things with such charm"; of cancer; in London...
While Churchill is away. Rab Butler will handle the top-level paper work and Tory cabinet meetings. In the House of Commons he will be assisted by Captain Harry Crookshank, the Conservatives' able House leader, and the party's frail Grey Eminence, Lord Salisbury, will be acting Foreign Secretary...
...Minister of Health, Macleod succeeds overworked Tory Veteran Harry Crookshank, 58, but Crookshank stays on as leader in the House of Commons. To solace Crookshank, Churchill also made him Lord Privy Seal, which is all honor and no work...
...Crookshank's rescue came Foreign
...hearing aid after years of stubbornly defying electronic progress), reluctantly but firmly gave the signal. Out rolled the guillotine, which sets a time limit on debate of each stage of a bill. "We accepted office from his Late Majesty with the firm intention of governing," announced House Leader Harry Crookshank...