Word: parliament
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Emanuel ("Manny") Shinwell to be Minister of Mines. To him will fall the tough task of nationalizing and modernizing Britain's antiquated coal pits. It will be a pleasure. Minister Shinwell belongs in Minister of Health Bevan's left wing. He is ruthless, knowledgeable, fearless, dour. In Parliament, he has boxed the ears of an M.P. whose opinions he disliked. He hopes to head the Labor Party some...
...most unusual translation was that of Leading Stoker Walter Edwards, formerly of the Royal Navy, to Civil Lord of the Admiralty. There he will sit among the senior admirals. Before he was elected to Parliament (1942), Stoker Edwards was on the dangerous Murmansk convoy run. Next time he boards a battleship officially, he will be piped over the side, pass between saluting side boys...
...glittering Staatsoper on the Ringstrasse, which circles the inner city, had been gutted. The walls of Saint Stephen's stood gaunt and beautiful. The interior was gone. At the Chancellery a bomb had sheered away the room where Dollfuss was assassinated. One wing of the hideous neo-Roman Parliament was burned out. Both the Burgtheater and the Belvedere were in ruins. Franz Josef's Hofburg was scarred but essentially undamaged. So were Schönbrunn and the Rathaus. One bridge remained over the Danube Canal. About 70% of the inner city, where the big stores, shops, hotels, restaurants...
...foreign king, a nourishing stock exchange, a wealthy merchant class, and a war with France. All four sorely needed a bank. Harassed, Holland-born King William III of Orange, whose war-financing was down to the level of the nation's hock shops, asked a willing Parliament to approve the establishment of a Bank of England. Soon after, a corporation was formed and ?1,200,000 raised by public subscription. With 19 employes, and a dim consciousness of its mission, the bank opened for business in Mercers' Chapel. In 1734 it moved to a building...
...roving European correspondent with the charm and looks to meet the right people, lately special assistant to U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant; and R.A.F. Flight Lieut. Aidan Crawley, 37, athletic Oxfordian who was elected to Britain's new Labor Parliament, son of the Rev. Canon A. S. Crawley, chaplain to King George VI; both for the first time; in London...