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...Ever since he had fought Bevin during the General Strike of 1936, it had been plain to Churchill that the strongest man in the British Labor movement was this publicity-shy union official who preferred not to sit in Parliament but wielded enough power to make Laborite Leaders Attlee, Greenwood and Dalton jump when he yanked strings...
Jubilated Liberal Pundit Harold J. Laski: "The three pivotal economic positions in the Ministry are held by Labor [War Cabinet's Greenwood, Supply's Morrison and Labor's Bevin]. Behind their occupants is the solid support of the trade unions. These are gains of an immense kind. They mean that Labor dominates the economic organization for the conduct...
Said Laborite Arthur Greenwood, British Minister Without Portfolio in charge of industrial production, to U. S. correspondents in London: "I dislike the British press and I hate the American press...
With 256 out of the 485 votes cast by his classmates, Langdon Parker Marvin, Jr. '41 of New York City and Eliot House, led the field in the Student Council Junior elections. Head of the '42 list was Loren Greenwood MacKinney '42 of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Eliot House, with 191 of the 489 Sophomore ballots...
...England. In return for this loan, Bank Governor Montagu Norman got: 1) a first mortgage on company receipts; 2) operating control. No longer boss of Richard Thomas, Sir William began taking orders from Governor Norman's new board, on which were the president of the cartel Viscount Greenwood, other old-line steel bigwigs, some of Richard Thomas' own competitors. Some of these were induced to resign last summer in favor of a "more representative" board, and the flush business of building Sir John Anderson's air-raid shelters postponed further disagreement until last month. Then Sir William...