Word: laborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predecessors, or aggravated by Tory criticism during the postwar period. When he finished he got a deafening ovation from Laborites. Deputy Premier Herbert Morrison's smile, however, was wan and sickly. With Attlee tired, Cripps and Ernie Bevin ailing, Morrison and Nye Bevan are the chief rivals for Labor leadership. Bevan's admirers thought his slambang speech had moved him several notches nearer to No. 10 Downing Street...
...Labor strategists would almost certainly not schedule it for the depths of winter, because it is hard to get out the workingman's full vote in cold weather. The Labor Party machinery was not tuned up for an election before spring. The shrewdest observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison did not want a fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing...
...came a diagnosis that was news to no one: the theater suffers from a tangled complex of ills, overwhelmingly economic, with most theater people ready to put the blame on the other fellow. Chief causes of high ticket prices: the high costs of theater rentals, sets, props, costumes, labor and the fumbling inefficiency of some producers...
...Pope also had a word for those who fear that analgesia in childbirth is inconsistent with the biblical "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children." Painkilling in labor, said the Pontiff, is an honest, moral endeavor, "so long as no danger ... results for either mother or infant, and so long as the tender sentiments of parenthood are neither diminished nor destroyed...
Jersey Standard and its subsidiary in Britain, said Holman, are now spending $150 million to expand the refineries there. But before they started, they got an assurance from the Labor government that it did not intend to nationalize the oil industry...