Word: greenwoods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Aneurin Bevan talked, Ernie Bevin restlessly shifted his weight, impatiently flung his farm-hardened hands about in gestures he had long used to brush aside opponents, soundlessly worked his pudgy lips. At the end there was no decision. The caucus chairman, indecisive Socialist Arthur Greenwood, was clearly afraid that the ouster would fail. And failure would have been equal to repudiation of Ernest Bevin, a serious thing on the eve of Britain's greatest war effort. The crisis was postponed. But it remained a crisis...
Communist Willie Gallacher charged up beside her, along with Arthur Greenwood's Socialists and a heel-kicking bloc of young Tories led by Captain Quintin Hogg. Ruffled Minister Butler wagged a schoolmasterish finger, waved aloft a copy of his bill, cried: a vote for. equal pay will be a vote against "the interests of this great reform," a vote "against the Government...
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is also Government spokesman in the House, did not know. He was not consoled when Socialist Greenwood voiced the sentiment of even the most bitter Government critics: this is not "a vote against the Education Bill . . . not a vote of lack of confidence. . . ." Said nettled Anthony Eden: "We should be wise to bring this discussion to an end. . . . The Government will consult...
Last week Chuck Luckman was in Manhattan, en route to a Florida conference with Albert Lasker. He had just signed up Charlotte ("So Long Letty") Greenwood for his summer radio program while Bob Hope, "Pepsodent's No. 1 property," is on vacation. Luckman says: "Without looking I can tell the seasons of the year and the Crossley ratings just by the tone of Hope's voice when he phones me for a raise...
...lobby braves were led by William Garrard, of Greenwood, Miss., general manager of the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association. He protested that because December cotton futures were quoted at $9 a bale under March prices, the Exchange was "offering price destruction instead of price insurance." The Senate braves were led by cotton-loving Senator James Oliver Eastland of Mississippi, 38, colleague of the pecan-growers' friend Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. "Cotton Jim" Eastland proposed that Congress investigate the Exchange because "certain big interests are rigging the market...