Word: forli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while the House of Commons staged a full-fledged debate over whether Mr. Cube constituted plain advertising or political electioneering (British law requires that all electioneering expenses must be made public), Mr. Cube turned up in another incarnation. His sponsors distributed free some 500,000 sets of Mr...
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...
The candidates' door-to-door canvassers, on their rounds of South Bradford's uniform grey stucco houses, could tell almost before they spoke to the people inside whether they were for Labor or for the Tories. South Bradford's class distinctions are expressed, among other ways, by...
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...
Recently Grotewohl's conscience, and the scorn of his former Socialist friends, seemed to trouble him. Last year he paid a secret call on U.S. and British officials in Berlin, offered to desert the Communists and work for the West. His only condition was that the Socialists in the...