Word: fadden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of Australia's Federal Parliament, many women think this is the year to cut in. Independents, small partyites, crackpots and women probably will have little effect on the big fight. That lies between the Labor Party Government of "Honest John" Curtin and the combined forces of Arthur Fadden's United Country (Farmers) Party and William Morris Hughes's United Australia (Conservative) Party...
Each leader has been a wartime Prime Minister. Fadden had less than two months of the job before Curtin took it; Hughes was Prime Minister in the last...
...publicly that the Jap invasion threat had passed. That looked as if the Prime Minister, with an eye on the regular elections in November, was making the biggest claim in Commonwealth political history: that Labor had saved the country. The Opposition's leader, Arthur W. ("Artie the Artful") Fadden, presumably thought that Curtin's popularity would rise as Allied prospects in the Pacific improved. Besides, the politicians wanted a showdown over controversial labor, social security and food policies...
Died. Edward Waterman Townsend, 87, author of the "Chimmie Fadden" stories about the Bowery of the '90s; in Manhattan. Written as newspaper features, the stories sold 200,000 copies in book form, and Townsend got elected to two terms in Congress from New Jersey...
Last October, the short-lived Government of Prime Minister Arthur William ("Artie the Artful") Fadden fell. Australia's jumbled internal affairs, plus the growing pressures of World War II, left John Curtin little choice but to take the job or forever discredit himself. He took...