Word: hansard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's House of Commons met for debate. For the next 36 hours and 20 minutes-with but one 63-minute break-Tories and Socialists battled one another across the dividing aisle. When it was all over and the last sleepy M.P. had dragged himself home to bed, Hansard, the official House of Commons record, was thicker by 250,000 words...
...work at ten as a farmhand for sixpence a week, and promptly struck for higher wages. The strike failed. Ernie was fired. Soon afterward he got another job at a shilling a week, plus a bonus of jam on Sunday for reading to his new boss out of Hansard's parliamentary reports. In 1908 he made his formal entry into the field of labor relations by setting up a pitch in front of Bristol Cathedral and badgering the wealthy for contributions for unemployed dock workers...