Word: hammersmith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westminster Abbey for a publicity gag. Several weeks ago the enterprising peer titillated the town again and got his latest business off to a good start by sending out invitations that read: "The Marquess of Milford Haven invites your company at the opening of a new launderette in Hammersmith." He avoided the ever-present snares of bachelordom on both sides of the Atlantic. "I steered clear of dowagers who might have had ideas," he explains...
...year later, said Haigh, "I took . . . the father and mother to the same basement, disposing of them in the same way." In February 1948 he killed the Hendersons, an unidentified woman from Hammersmith, a young man in Kensington and a girl "who said her name was Mary...
...fondest hopes: they had chalked up a net gain of 829 seats, while Labor had lost 633. The Tory tide swallowed Wandsworth, Ernie Bevin's home borough, and Herbert Morrison's own stamping grounds of Lewisham. The Conservatives registered big gains in London's working-class Hammersmith and Holborn districts. Moaned one Labor official: "It turns our stomach...
...hours a day, often accompanied by his wife, the Tory candidate stumped his district, tramping streets, ringing doorbells, holding press conferences and speaking at one rally after another (100 in the last ten days of the campaign). To back his cause and secure Hammersmith, Lord Woolton ("Lord Woof-Woof" to the Laborites) put the whole machinery of the national party into high gear. Money, pamphlets and speakers poured into the district. From almost every street corner Tory sound trucks and mobile movie units blared out statistics compiled at the Conservative Political Education Center. Telephone boxes, butcher shops, dance halls, pubs...
...planning their strategy, the Tory chieftains had decided to abandon all constructive suggestion and concentrate on criticism. In Hammersmith, all the fine new Tory "charters" painstakingly formulated over the last year and a half were tacitly shelved while Tory spokesmen heaped invective on Labor's extravagance, the food shortage, the housing shortage and the high cost of living. At Labor rallies, Tory hecklers shouted "onions, snoek and eggs"-all painful items in rationed Britain. But many a Hammersmith voter could recall days when there was food aplenty and no money...