Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guilty Men (TIME, Sept. 30), a crushing arraignment of Britain's high-placed political bunglers. Some guessed that "Cato" might be Newsman Michael Foote of the Evening Standard, H. G. Wells, Lord Beaverbrook, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Alfred Duff Cooper, or the Prime Minister's brash son Randolph Churchill. Actor Vic Oliver, hitherto a dark horse in the guessing, is Winston Churchill...
Last year the Air Corps began distributing its training to 18 civilian flying schools for primary flying, took its apprentice fliers on from there to Randolph Field (San Antonio, Tex.) and finished them off at Kelly Field, on the other side of town. Few months ago the Air Corps started another new flying school at Maxwell Field (Montgomery, Ala.). Last week it opened another at Moffett Field (Sunnyvale, Calif...
...Crow Army Policy, shrilled the Kansas City Call. Along with the War Department's statement many a paper printed the demands made on President Roosevelt fortnight ago by his White House visitors: Secretary Walter White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; President A. Philip Randolph of the Sleeping Car Porters' union; T. Arnold Hill, an assistant in the N. Y. A. Division for Negro Affairs. For the Army's solution of The Problem had brusquely rejected the pivotal demand in the Negroes' seven-part memo to the President, that "existing units...
...political parties made peace. They agreed that for the duration vacated parliamentary seats would not be contested, Conservatives being succeeded by Conservatives, Laborites by Laborites. The political truce was designed to put an end to party politics in wartime. Last week it put a Churchill in Parliament: Randolph, 29-year-old son of Winston...
...merely as an uncut, minor edition of Father Churchill, firmly snuffed each attempt. With the "official Conservatives" and competition both out, and his father in at No. 10 Downing Street, it was easy. Adrian Charles Moreing, M. P. for the Lancashire cotton-weaving town of Preston, died and Randolph popped up as unopposed candidate in the by-election, was duly elected...