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Word: returned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a year ago the Tory government of Harold Macmillan was losing one by-election after another, and Labor felt certain of its return to power. But since summer, as Britons' wrath at the Tories' Suez disaster faded, and once unpopular Tory anti-inflationary measures began building a new economic stability, the Macmillan government had bounced back to the top of the opinion polls. Laborites sensed that they might be headed not for office but for a third straight electoral defeat. Opening the conference, Party Chairman Tom Driberg conceded: "Our principles and policies have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Gloomy Labor | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Fall. But if Scarborough drew Labor together behind GaitskelFs lead, it was nonetheless a defensive conference, and hardly the kind to inspire a party trying to return to power. "United we fall," cracked one prominent Laborite. Socialists, tied to a creed outworn, see the Tories successfully administering their welfare state, and the public in no mood for dated dogmas. Gaitskell himself has not caught public fancy. The party has yet to find the proper rocket fuel (o propel it on the second stage to its New Jerusalem. About the only fresh election cry came from Gaitskell. In a land where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Gloomy Labor | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Bank. Gaither, who helped give the foundation its present shape and direction, announced last May that he would return to his San Francisco law practice. Still in office as the foundation's guiding force and chief executive: able President Henry Heald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Appointment of the Week | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...hunt gets Harry mangled by the no-nonsense tiger, but leads to a long recuperation during which Granger and Actress Rush eye each other at length. As soon as he is strong enough to stand up, they both lie down, and the sanctity of the home makes its uneasy return only instants before the film's end. As Harry, Swashbuckler Granger reads his lines as they were written, which is a serious disservice to the writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Chrysler also settled with the U.A.W. along the Ford pattern after thousands of workers struck. Both sides did some giving on key points. Chrysler, traditionally plagued by the industry's poorest labor relations, agreed to grant greater preference to high-seniority workers when rehiring. In return, the U.A.W. accepted a cutback in company-paid union stewards and a tougher no-strike clause to prevent the wildcat walkouts that have hit Chrysler hard for the past three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Problems of Peace | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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