Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then his cousin, a maiden lady, died, and left the bulk of her $230,000 estate to her elderly solicitor, one Frederick Harry Nye. Wintle brooded restlessly, concluded that Nye had somehow done his sister and himself out of the money. Lawyers told him he had no case in law. Undaunted, Wintle took action. He called up Nye, told him he was "Lord Norbury," and asked Nye to come to an apartment in Hove. Nye went. As 71 -year-old Law yer Nye related it in court last week...
...voice said, 'Is that you. dear boy? Come in.' Wintle came out of the kitchen with a rush." Wintle threw him to the ground and, according to Nye, made him sign a ?1,000 check for his sister. "After wards, he made me go into another room, take off my trousers, and put on a paper hat. Then he took photographs...
Last week the Communists proclaimed a "general strike." Nominally, the strike was a protest against the arrest of six of their leaders, but its real aim was to embarrass the new leftist government of David Marshall. Chief Minister Marshall, a fast-talking criminal lawyer who greatly admires Nye Bevan, horrified Singapore's starchy Britishers by winning the colony's first election two months ago. His election also aroused the Communists, who resented his stealing their campaign for self-government away from them. Moving into action, the Communist strike organizers halted bus lines, picketed pineapple canneries, granite quarries, rubber...
...widespread discontent with Labor's leadership. The murmurs had become shouts after Labor's electoral defeat. The Laborite Daily Mirror headlined: ATTLEE MUST GO. Bevanites insisted that Attlee's moderation had cost them the election, that the party must recover its evangelistic fervor - preferably under Nye Bevan himself. Supporters of young (49) Right Winger Hugh Gaitskell hinted that Labor's leadership had become...
Married. Dr. Roger Bannister. 26, first man to run a four-minute mile, last week named to the Queen's Honors List (see FOREIGN NEWS) ; and Moyra Elver Jacobsson, 26, professional portrait painter, youngest daughter of Swedish Economist Per Jacobsson, and niece of Sir Archibald Nye, British High Commissioner to Canada; in Basel, Switzerland...