Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Democrats set up their own court and dismissed every case on the docket an hour before Republican Judge Louis C. Wool convened his court. Rival judges in Norwalk struck a rickety compromise-Republicans judged the even-numbered cases, Democrats the odd. Six habitual drunkards, up for sentencing in Waterbury, explained their presence: We were celebrating the appointment of the Democratic judges." Ten days," snapped Republican Judge Charles R. Summa...
...Labor government, locked in dubious battle with the obscure forces of a dollar-exchange crisis, had to turn this week to a more tangible danger. On the decision of his cabinet, King George VI proclaimed a state of emergency to meet a two-week-old strike on the London docks. Not since the General Strike of 1926 had a British government taken such drastic action in a labor dispute...
...strike had begun when dockers refused to unload two ships involved in a Canadian strike. The walkout on British docks persisted and spread. Prime Minister Attlee said the London stoppage was a maneuver in Communist "wrecking tactics." Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross called it "economic and political treason." The government ordered troops to load the ships...
...conference of Commonwealth Finance Ministers in London this week, the British planned to spread the austerity by asking all of the Dominions to restrict dollar purchases. Economist-Politician Cripps, with one eye on the dollar and the other on the general elections due within a year, walked a tortuous path. He and other Western politicians faced a delicate job in telling the public just how big the crisis...
Socialist George Bernard Shaw turned a capital gain in a London auction. After hanging on to a $160 clavichord for 28 years, he let it go for a well-tempered...