Word: spicer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slur on my firm!" cried Herbert Hill. "We will get Mr. Wilson by the ears before long." It took more than a year, but Hill's Hardy Spicer, Ltd., car-parts manufacturing company in Birmingham, did at least get Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 49, by the tongue a bit. Wilson's counsel appeared in London's High Court of Justice to deliver a handsome apology from the Prime Minister after he was charged with "libeling and slandering" Hill during the 1964 general elections campaign by suggesting that the Hardy Spicer management had fomented...
...house-hungry slum dwellers, but which to most informed Britons would merely sound like confirmation of Sir Alec's allegation that the Labor economic program was a "menu without prices." Harold Wilson committed a gaffe of his own, charging a "Tory plot" behind a strike at the Hardy Spicer factories that threatens to idle Britain's whole automotive industry. He was promptly slapped with a slander suit by the Hardy Spicer management while Sir Alec chortled "panic...
...Anger, Spicer...