Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Old Bailey judges, Attlee and 13 members of Labor's shadow cabinet* took their places on the platform in Committee Room 14, overlooking the Thames. All but a handful of Labor's 294 M.P.s squeezed into the stifling room, and Nye Bevan, dressed in black, took a chair in the corner to the right of the platform. The questions before the court were purely disciplinary: Had Bevan flouted the party, and if so, how should he be punished? Wispy little Clement Attlee assumed the prosecutor's role...
...leadership by quoting what he said was a Chinese proverb: "A fish starts rotting at its head." Bevan accused the trade union bosses, who contribute most to Labor's treasury, of ordering his expulsion. Pudgy finger pointing at member after member, he ranged along the row of the shadow cabinet: "There are the conspirators . . . Those who hold the moneybags demand my expulsion. They have given the orders. They await the decision...
...almost laughable that schools can teach Democracy without discussion of its weight," Holmes continued. Scare headlines might throw a terrible shadow over world conditions, but it is a teacher's responsibility to uncover the true meaning of the issues for the students...
Behind closed doors, the 18 members of the party's "shadow cabinet" considered not whether to punish Nye Bevan, but how. By questioning and taunting Party Chief Clement Attlee on the floor of the House of Commons during the defense debate (TIME, March 14), the rambunctious Welshman had handed his opponents an opportunity. They did not question Bevan's refusal to vote with the party in censuring the Tory government's defense plans, for 62 other Laborites, many of them pacifists, had abstained also...
...cigar stand. Paden could not have a license because he had entered Italy as a tourist, and his application for a permanent residence permit would have to wait. Tourist Paden lost patience and put up a sign on his building in the Via Achille Papa, in the shadow of the Vatican. The sign, in letters ten inches high, read CHIESA DI CHRISTI (Church of Christ...