Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after he was appointed chairman of what is virtually a Ministry of Postwar Reconstruction last month, Laborite Arthur Greenwood broadcast his ideas as follows: "Britain, after the war, will not tolerate in her midst the tragic spectacle of abject poverty, nor the existence of . .. unemployment...
...apply the brakes to this type of rush by British businessmen, Winston Churchill has named Laborite Arthur Greenwood, his Minister Without Portfolio, as Chief of the Executive for Reconstruction, to work up broad schemes for a more beautiful post-war Britain. Today 99% of all new building operations is under direct Government control and private building can be done only under a special license. This does not apply to repairs and patching up of Blitzed houses, which is fast be coming a nationwide non-union job in which everybody has a hand...
...defense setup by giving it a two-man head (see p. 21), Winston Churchill last week again revised Britain's setup. He made Labor Minister Ernest Bevin Chief of Production Executive, Supply Minister Sir Andrew Rae Duncan Chief of Import Executive, Minister Without Portfolio Arthur Greenwood, whose so-called Production Council has proved inadequate, he made Chief of [postwar] Reconstruction Executive. In Britain, as in the U. S., these changes were not wholly satisfying. Said the Laborite Daily Herald: "There is still no supreme high command of economic and industrial policy...
Coach Hal Ulen will send his Varsity swimmers against Greenwood Memorial tomorrow night at 8:45 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building in what amounts to a warm-up meet for the crucial Brown contest scheduled to take place next Wednesday night...
...Crimson mermen should have no difficulty in taking Greenwood and thus extending for another year the long string of victories Harvard swimmers have rung up against their traditional rivals who hall from Gardner, Mass...