Word: crookshank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...surprised," replied a bobby. "They won't miss today's fight." The fight involved Tory plans to levy small charges for medicines and appliances, under Labor's pet socialized health plan. "Unless we restore our precarious [economic] situation," warned Health Minister Harry Crookshank, "it is not the National Health Service which will be destroyed but the very foundations of our economy . . ." The Tories planned to save $56 million by charging a shilling (14?) for prescriptions, $7 for wigs, a maximum of $11.90 for a set of false teeth...