Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates got some evil-smelling doses to swallow. Leader of the House of Commons Herbert Morrison had sent up from London a cabinet decision that manual workers in nationalized industries for a period of two years must not even discuss pension plans with the nationalized boards running their industries. Said a Durham miners' leader: "Mind you, it's not that we trade unionists want to force the government into doing something the nationalized industries can't afford. We'd be perfectly willing to hold an inquiry on the point. But we're not going...
...have they ceased to be watchful along their coasts, these British?' Finally I found a house. The people took me to a post office. There was a pretty little clerk there and she made two telephone calls-one to the police and one to the Daily Express in London...
...happy arrangement. The police gave the balloonist a night's lodging. The London paper offered to telephone his wife and pay his way back to Belgium in return for an exclusive story. "I accepted," said van der Straeten, "and suddenly learned just what journalism is-six parts money and four parts acrobatics." The acrobatics began the next day. When the other reporters arrived, the Daily Express men shoved him from one room to another and jammed him into closets to hide him from their rivals. "I need," said proud Joseph van der Straeten, home at last in Knocke...
...drum up business for its London-Rome route, British European Airways sent a letter to 7,200 Roman. Catholic clergymen in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was no ordinary promotion letter; it was in Latin and it urged the priests to visit Rome during the Holy Year...
...malady spread; there was hardly a corner of Salem without its afflicted maiden. Long weighed down by Indian raids, smallpox and quarrels with London, Salem took to the outbreak of convulsions with something approaching relief, as if a holiday had been declared...