Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor will counter with "full socialism," i.e., immediate nationalization of the chief industries, state control of employment, housing, agriculture, social security. Its program will be emphatically put across by the Attlee-Bevin-Morrison-Greenwood quadrumvirate...
...three of the four tests, several men lied for first prize. Timothy P. Miller '48, J. Arthur Greenwood '47, and Warner B. Berthoff of the V-12 attained the top scores in the Test of Correctness and Effectiveness of Expression. Sole winner of the Test of Reading of Literary Materials was F. E. Williams...
...country's swankest mule race was held a fortnight ago at Greenwood, Miss. Five thousand Delta planters and cotton pickers packed the American Legion ball park for the fourth annual running of the event. The card consisted of five heats and a sweepstakes. Stubborn Delta plow mules, bedecked for superstition's sake with turkey feathers, squirrel tails and paper festoons, were mounted by Negro plowboys in overalls and gaudy silk shirts. Proceeds were earmarked for Mississippi's underprivileged preschool children...
...That blasted bill" embodied the Churchill Government's first legislative step toward the postwar reconstruction of Britain. It had also faced Arthur Greenwood and his Laborites with a choice between: 1) swallowing their principles...
Rather than crack the Coalition at mid-invasion (and probably commit party suicide). Greenwood & Co. simply resolved not to vote. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin propelled his big bulk across the House floor, stopped in front of Greenwood Grated Bevin: "So you won't vote, eh?" Greenwood grinned at him, turned with a grin to the nearly 200 Laborites ranged behind him, sat tight. So did they. Once again, they were in revolt against their own leaders in the Government...