Word: rab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restrict Irish immigration would be used only if "absolutely necessary.'' The government's aim is to keep out what one critic of the bill called ''black Irish" immigrants: West Indians who try to enter the country via Ireland. Defending the bill, Home Secretary "Rab" Butler stumbled through an inept speech...
...Richard Austen Butler, 58, as party chairman and Commons leader. Macmillan's overt aim was to free Butler to act as his personal deputy, and take charge of the group of ministers assigned to handle Britain's crucial negotiations with the European Common Market. Shrewd, tart-tongued "Rab" Butler, who has long been Macmillan's chief rival for 10 Downing Street, was thus removed from the party's nerve center to an assignment that could make or break the government-but will reflect luster, if Britain enters the Common Market on favorable terms, mainly on Harold...
...mature independence and membership in a multiracial Commonwealth. Pragmatically, he knows well that no force on earth can halt the tide of nationalism. But Macmillan realized that if Macleod had stayed on, his colonial policies would have brought down on him the Tory censure that kept his old patron. Rab Butler, from becoming Prime Minister: "He's too far left to be right...
With Britain heading into its sixth economic crisis since war's end, Prime Minister Macmillan and his Cabinet for weeks have been promising tough, bold, imaginative action. Home Secretary Rab Butler ringingly proclaimed that the government would "lead the nation in calling for moral values to emerge instead of materialistic appetites." Accused of excessive complacency, Harold Macmillan himself loftily intoned: "When you hear the announcement, you wall not think we have been complacent." In the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd portentously lectured that "none of us must be bound by old dogmas...
Unresigned to his fate, Tony Benn mailed his viscountcy patent back to the Lord Chamberlain at Buckingham Palace. Last week he watched from the Commons visitors gallery as Home Secretary "Rab" Butler helpfully proposed that the Committee of Privileges investigate the question of whether Benn's parliamentary privilege had been violated. As a last resort, Benn could still defy the 1678 rule barring peers from Commons by standing for and winning re-election to the House -the device by which Charles Bradlaugh in the late 19th century overturned the rule barring atheists from Commons...