Word: leyton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patrick Gordon Walker lost Leyton, not Smethwick, in a January by-election. The latter he lost in the general election in October. Both were "safe" Labor seats...
...prime ministership when Harold Macmillan resigned, announced that he was leaving his front-bench seat to accept a life peerage and become Master of Cambridge's Trinity College. The Labor Party's Patrick Gordon Walker, disappointed loser in last month's by-election at Leyton, announced that he had also accepted a position in the academic world-as adviser to the Initial Teach ing Alphabet Foundation, an institution that promotes the use of a 44-character alphabet as an aid in teaching children to read...
...most shocking blow Harold Wilson's Labor government could have received. Never before had a British Prime Minister been so brutally humiliated at so early a stage of a new government. Running for Parliament in a supposedly "safe" seat in the London constituency of Leyton, Her Majesty's Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, 57, was rejected by the voters -and lost his political life...
...forced Wilson to reshuffle his Cabinet was the third since the new government took over. First was the threatened devaluation of the pound, which stemmed from the chronic imbalance in Britain's foreign trade. Then there was the imbroglio over the controversial TSR-2 "Hedgehopper" bomber. Then came Leyton...
Last week, as Gordon Walker continued his campaign in Leyton, at least 30 burly Labor stewards guarded the halls in which he spoke. Although a massive journalistic contingent from Fleet Street was, in The Times of London's words, "ready to pounce at the drop of a swastika," no Fascists showed up-though Spoiler Jordan sent an agent in blackface to the Leyton town hall, where the interloper declared himself, in crude parody of Negro vernacular, to be "de noo candidate, Walker Gordon." And though everyone was protesting that race was not an issue in Leyton, the BBC hastily...