Word: laborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cripps on the carpet, demanding wage boosts. The Tories charged that devaluation could have been avoided but for the Socialist government's mismanagement; Laborites replied that it was not so, asserted that they had devalued rather than cut Britain's welfare program and permit unemployment. Said one Labor leader: "The government preferred to devalue the pound rather than devalue...
This week Parliament convenes in special session. Labor faces stormy days. Said one Labor leader: "I've got indigestion from eating my own words on devaluation...
...General James P. Hodges. Among the new members of McCloy's "cabinet" are the State Department's old Germany hand, James Riddleberger, who will be in charge of political affairs; Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, formerly of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in New York, who is assistant high commissioner; and Labor Director Harvey W. Brown, former A.F.L. official and EGA labor adviser. Says the high commissioner: "I've got a wonderful team...
Though Coffman plans no radical departures from the tried & true methods of legal education, his five-man faculty will "update the students on the new kinds of law which have become important-administrative law, taxation and labor law." Says he: "We believe in the blocking and tackling school of education-good fundamental training . . . We want to turn out men who will become leaders...
...Israel, the Shofar's sound echoed for the first time in more than 2,000 years through a free land in which the People of the Covenant could walk in safety and peace. The Labor government of non-Orthodox Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made provision for an Orthodox observance. Cantors and special prayer books were dispatched to Israel's army bases. The police detoured all traffic away from Tel Aviv's great synagogue on Allenby Street, while inside, black & white robed rabbis prayed and chanted. In the Tel Aviv area alone some 400 synagogues were filled...