Word: devonport
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...suffrage. To go back to selection by the barons is unthinkable. It is a return to Tammany Hall politics." Owen, 42, a former Labor Foreign Secretary, insisted that "only a miracle" could now prevent the birth of a Social Democratic Party. In fact, late last week he told his Devonport constituency that he would not seek reelection as a Labor candidate...
...Summit v. the Schools. In Lancashire, the closing of 72 cotton mills in five constituencies threatened to drive thousands of touchy, often Tory mill hands into the arms of Labor. In south-coast Devonport, audiences listened stonily to speeches about the summit and demanded new schools. Among the coalpits of the Tyne, in Scotland and in the Yorkshire foundry towns, pockets of unemployment threatened at least a dozen government seats. And both sides fretted over the effect of mass transfers of traditionally Labor voters from city slums to new outlying housing developments...
...tally was recorded, famous names were called in victory or defeat. ¶J In Devonport, Randolph Churchill, Winston's only son, failed to unseat Bev-anite Michael Foote by 2,390 votes. But Churchill's two sons-in-law, Duncan Sandys (husband of Diana) and Christopher Soames (husband of Mary), won their Conservative seats...
...owner is a Jew." In Wales, signs appeared on a school wall reading: "Jewish murderers" and "Hitler was right." At Kingstanding, near Birmingham, hooligans stole into a Jewish cemetery, uprooted gravestones, defaced them with signs: "Hang the Jews," "Dirty Jews," "Pig," "Swine." There were other outbreaks in Cardiff, Devonport, Liverpool...
Prince William, elder son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, gravely polishing the royal crest on the family car in Devonport, Tasmania...