Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parliamentary corridors buzzed with rumors that Nye Bevan meant to make good lis threat to resign from the cabinet. Most Tories scoffed; from their opposition benches they needled the Minister of Labor-"the main advocate of waste and extravagance of all forms." Cracked Conservative M.P. Osbert Peake: "The Chancellor . . . has succeeded where his predecessors all failed; and even if the Chancellor has not yet succeeded in deflating our swollen economy, he has well and ruly disinflated the pouter pigeon of the Treasury dovecote...
Five years of power and responsibility had made Labor's leaders cautious on the once-beloved doctrine of nationalization. At Margate last week a proposal to nationalize the building industry made even the leftists of the Labor Party wince. Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan said: "What you are really saying is 'let's nationalize every industry in Great Britain.'" Cried a voice...
Britain's assured Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Sevan was certain that socialized medicine was getting more popular with British doctors. Said he to a group of Durham miners: "I will almost make you a promise that before very long the British Medical Association will put up a statue . . . called St. Nye...
These unanimous and near-unanimous votes were significant, but they did not tell the whole story. The Senate was no longer a cave of winds echoing to the oratory of such agile and bitter isolationists as William Borah, Gerald Nye and Burton Wheeler. The dissenters of 1950 were less adept men, like Missouri's fuzz-tongued James P. Kem or Kenneth Wherry, the minority leader from Nebraska, or droning George Malone of Nevada. Conspicuous in their van last week stood the usually forceful and logical Robert A. Taft of Ohio. The President, said Taft, had no legal authority...
Ebbw Vale. In contrast to Eden's cautious doubts, Bevan was in a mood of exuberant confidence when he got back to his sister's house in Tredegar. His wife Jennie Lee called him from Cannook (in Staffordshire), where she was running for1 reelection. Said Nye to Jennie: "Everything's fine here, my sweet. How are you -exhausted...