Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada has been second to no nation in the fight against wartime inflation. Burly Donald Gordon made it official in Parliament last week, when he reported that his vigilant Prices Board had actually knocked down the Canadian cost-of-living index last year by .8. For the whole war period. Dominion determination had held living-cost increases to 18%. (The U.S. index rose 30% during the same period...
First to go was tall, flamboyant socialist Frank Owen, 39, a "Sudeten Welshman" and at 23 a Member of Parliament, who was drafted in the midst of arguing loudly for a Second Front. In Manhattan last week, now a major on Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's staff, he admitted what everyone long suspected, that he was through with the Standard...
...fire clouds kept creeping high and the tower of the Parliament Building stuck out black against the background of the red sky. During the night we thought the whole of Tokyo had been reduced to ashes...
...year Robert Browning and Jefferson Davis died (1889), brash young Lloyd George, bubbling over with a reformer's fervor, won a seat in Parliament. His sharp tongue quickly made him enemies. In the wholesale barrage of criticism he inspired, he was charged with everything but cowardice. Belaboring Lloyd George became a Parliamentary habit. During his long career, he was denounced (among other things) for pacifism, for hypocrisy, for devising soak-the-rich budgets, for tactlessness...
...drop hammer-a prewar, German-made model-capable of forging the life-&-death Spitfire crankshafts. (The man in charge of operating that precious hammer, 49-year-old William Forster, received the British Empire Medal in 1943; but only last week, when the story was told in Parliament, did Britons find out why.) Already, those desperate days seemed far away...