Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only-accomplishment of the Army-McCarthy hearings has been the introduction of Joseph Nye Welch to American televiewers. His wonderful performance is the best entertainment I've had in years. Thank you . . . for his background sketch [TIME...
...keen on the trip. It would add to Red China's prestige in countries like India and Burma, and besides, said Attlee, "I do not know what my wife will say. I'm too old to be flying about." Also going along: Party Secretary Phillips, Nye Bevan. "We were not informed or consulted," was the chilly Foreign Office reaction...
...Albert Reeves looks after the interests of the Dominican Republic. Former Senator Burton K. Wheeler, a brilliant lawyer, represents Robert R. Young and a group of railroads. Other lobbyists are James P. Kem of Missouri, Fred Hartley Jr. of the Taft-Hartley Act, Scott Lucas of Illinois. Gerald P. Nye is now the president of a records-management and microfilm company, hasn't been in North Dakota in years. Joe Ball has left Minnesota for greener pastures in Manhattan, where he is an official of a steamship agency...
Early in April, Laborite Aneurin Bevan sideswiped a bus at Gerrard's Cross in Beaconsfield, recovered control of his Humber Hawk and sped on. Haled to Beaconsfield to face a magistrate last week, Nye made his feeble excuses: "I realize I should have stopped but I was anxious to avoid . . . publicity." The court brushed the plea aside, slapped a fine of $166.10 (including costs) on Britain's most freewheeling public figure and took away his license for three months...
Laborite Bevan's reckless political course, leading to his resignation from his party's parliamentary committee (TIME, April 29), was also getting him in trouble. Sir Winston Churchill gloated that Nye's revolt had left him "a stranded whale." Last week the whale was expertly harpooned by Bevan's No. 1 rival in the Labor Party, Deputy Leader Herbert Morrison. Apparently with full approval of Clement Attlee, Morrison, in the Laborite monthly Socialist Commentary, accused