Word: nye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guns. Founder Francis S. Street and Francis S. Smith never dreamed things would turn out that way when they took over the New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855. Editing their magazines and paperbacked books for men only, they bought the humor of Bill Nye and Josh Billings, the Buffalo Bill stories of Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), the dime novels by Nick Carter (Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), 1,000 stories about Frank Merriwell by Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten...
...Nye Bevan, the hard-eyed lad from the Welsh mines, knows why. The drive for state maternalism is not primarily the work of doctrinaires, Marxist or otherwise; it is a distillation of the bitter experience of Bevan and his comrades. Whether the brew is poison or not, it has been a long time cooking...
Look into the Future. Some observers believe that the social welfare state may destroy democracy in Britain and pave the way for Communism. Others say it will provide the best bulwark against Communism, by preventing the want and insecurity on which Communism thrives. That is the way Nye Bevan sees it. Sevan's colleagues say he is one of the party's most active antiCommunists. As a member of the Labor Party's international affairs subcommittee, Bevan engineered the party's appeal to the Italian Socialists against fusion with the Communists before the 1948 Italian elections...
...Nye Bevan is pleased with what he has done in Britain. He considers it only a start. Morrison and other party leaders want to sit back and consolidate the party gains. Bevan says the party is like a man on a bicycle: if he stops he will fall. According to his own statement, Bevan will settle for nothing less than "total destruction" of the remnants of British capitalism, including the Conservative Party. He has estimated that completion of his program will take 25 years. Whether or not he and his party will have a chance to finish...
Every now & then, Nye Bevan gets away from his desk and takes a stroll along the seaside with several old cronies. He will stop at a stall to eat winkles, go wild on the swings, and will not miss a single peep show of the "What the Butler Saw" species. During one of these strolls, recently, Bevan dropped a penny into a fortune-telling slot machine. The note which the machine returned declared: "Not another personality is as sparkling as yours, nor a personality with such inherent righteousness...