Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these elections, the Tories had gained 360 seats and lost 19; Labor had gained 69 and lost 362. This did not necessarily mean that Labor was certain to be licked in 1950. It did mean that Labor would no longer find it easy to sell Britons Sir Stafford Cripps's austerity program (see below) as the only true high road to a new land of pie-in-the-sky. In Berlin, where the news reached him, Herbert Morrison put it mildly: "The situation is difficult, awkward and embarrassing...
...advertising signs (see cut), were turned up to their prewar glory. Thousands of Londoners cheered, and moppets who had never seen the show murmured with delight. This was a happy prelude to an otherwise depressing week for Britain. In the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps presented his 1949-50 budget. Under his severe guidance, Britain had sweated, toiled, and made a sensational recovery (TIME, March 28). Now, the nation felt, it was due for something more than the lights of London. Britons wanted lower taxes, continuation of cheap food, cheaper clothes and tobacco...
...Manhattan speech to 600 college girls, cool, correct Actor-Director Sir...
Cedric Hardwicke lumped radio and television with the atomic bomb. Declared Sir Cedric: "It is better to be killed in an explosion than to have the human mind gradually deteriorating in the home...
Even the Lexington postmaster was swamped. The U.S. Government had just issued a new 3? stamp in honor of the occasion, and collectors everywhere were writing in for first-day covers. One Swedish philatelist added that he had been a lifelong admirer of "Sir Washington and Sir Lee." That was a fairly universal sentiment around Lexington this week...