Word: harold
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...basis that he is an aristocrat and therefore has little knowledge of, and even less compassion for, the problems of the laborer. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the unquestioned champion of the American workingman and a wealthy aristocrat of the first order, would presumably also be considered by Mr. Harold Wilson an "elegant anachronism." I believe such a label would, in fact, be held in contempt by the vast majority of Mr. Wilson's own Labor Party. As can be seen by the example of Mr. Roosevelt or that of Mr. Kennedy, wealth and lineage do not necessarily preclude sensitivity...
...your cover story [Oct. 11] on Mr. Harold Wilson, you stated: "Laborites accepted the ban [on a foreign policy debate at the party conference] without question. Asked if Gaitskell would have resorted to such tactics, Wilson replied: 'No-but he would have lost the election...
...Until then, for the first time in history, Britain has a Prime Minister without a seat either in the Lords or Commons, prompting the crack that the denobilized earl is "a Home without a House." In the Commons facing the Prime Minister's empty seat, Labor's Harold Wilson thundered that postponing Parliament's next session to suit Douglas-Home's convenience was tantamount to treating M.P.s like "awkward or refractory tenants" and constituted a "very serious tampering with the rights and duties of the House." Sir Alec (as he prefers to be known) merely...
...Douglas-Home's shrewdest appointments, to the crucial job of party chairman, was Labor Minister John Hare, 52, a hardworking, true-blue Tory. As for Sir Alec's defeated rival for the prime ministership, Rab Butler, he had always wanted to be Foreign Secretary (Harold Macmillan denied him the job), and Rab made his debut last week at a Western European Union conference at The Hague with complete professional aplomb...
...Harold C. Martin, Director of General Education Ahf and a member of the Advisory Committee for the project, said he considered it "a low-cost enterprise which might yield distinctive results in a short time." "The program is working on the hypothesis that with sufficient exposure, there will be a significant change," he said...