Word: morrison
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Died. Cameron Morrison, 83, wealthy one-term governor of North Carolina (1921-25), onetime U.S. Senator (1930-32) and U.S. Representative (1943-45); while vacationing in Quebec. Morrison lost the 1932 Senate Democratic primary race by some 100,000 votes to roaring Bob Reynolds, who followed him in a model T and, imitating Morrison's dignified strut, described to shocked North Carolina hillbillies Cam's favorite dish: "It's caw-vee-yah . . . It's little black fish eggs, and it comes from Red Russia...
...PHILIP MORRISON, associate professor of physics at Cornell, admitted that he was a member of the party in 1939, and that he had gone right on working for the Communists until three weeks before his testimony last May. In 1942, he joined the Manhattan Project, was one of "a small group of experts who assembled, tested, and mounted [atomic] bombs used for combat in the Pacific...
Since they ousted ex-Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison from the Party Executive last year, the Bevanites have influenced policy out of all proportion to their real power. Last month the party's "Challenge to Britain" platform called for partial nationalization of the complex aircraft, machine-tool and chemical industries. But last week the Trades Union Congress (183 unions, 8,000,000 members) staged a counterattack. Keynoted Chairman Tom O'Brien: "The British trades union movement created the Labor Party, and if the child thinks it is going to devour the father, it must be told there is nothing...
Reassured by Deakin's triumph, union leaders went right on planning a greater blow at Bevan: a policy statement that would cut right across the "Challenge to Britain," and the re-election of Herbert Morrison to the Executive, in place of ailing, respected Arthur Greenwood, 73. Said one union man: "The days of the hotheads are over...
...lisp, Salisbury at first meeting may look like a slightly astringent edition of a P. G. Wodehouse hero. But behind the prim manner and pained eyebrows lurks a will as strong as Churchill's. Salisbury, says one of his admirers, has the same political acumen as Laborite Herbert Morrison, but with this difference: the marquess has been at the game 450 years longer...