Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, chief of the Indian delegation, began with some sarcastic comments on "the free flow of information" with which U.S. delegates say they would like to wash the world. It would just mean, said he, a flood of U.S. crossword puzzles, detective stories and comic books. India could get along nicely without such American cheap-jackery, thank...
...lasher Dalton won honors, if not complete confidence. During World War II he served first as Minister of Economic Warfare, later as President of the Board of Trade. After the war, Clement Attlee made him Chancellor of the Exchequer, traditionally No. 2 post in the British Cabinet. Recently, as Sir Stafford Cripps towered into prominence as Britain's economic dictator, Dalton's own political stature shrank...
Penance. That same evening, some of the high Laborites saw the cinema première of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, a play about a British official who had sold a Cabinet secret to a stockbroker. For Dalton, unlike Sir Robert Chiltern of Wilde's play, there was no happy ending-at least not immediately. His old rival, Sir Stafford Cripps, became, in addition to his other duties, Chancellor of the Exchequer...