Word: tradings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...elastic bargaining powers), but left behind a wealth of good will. Churchill made him Leader of the House of Commons, later Minister of Aircraft Production. At war's end, the Labor Party received the renegade into its ranks again. Clement Attlee made him president of the Board of Trade, and when storm clouds gathered last September, Minister for Economic Affairs...
Whitehall Circle. Some of Cripps's best Labor friends became members of his official family. Cripps supervises four ministries directly: Board of Trade, Supply, Transport, and Fuel & Power. Of the four ministers only Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport, is not a socialist intellectual. One of the founders of the cooperative movement, Barnes is more the old-style labor leader. Cripps's closest friend and adviser is 46-year-old George Strauss, tall and swarthy Minister of Supply. Like Cripps, he is an upper-class leftist. Son of a wealthy metal merchant, Strauss was one of the faithful...
Young (31) Harold Wilson, who was once (at 21) the youngest don at Oxford, succeeded Cripps as president of the Board of Trade. The new Minister of Fuel & Power, Hugh Gaitskell, is, like Cripps, a product of Winchester and New College. Last week Gaitskell advocated fewer baths as a means of saving coal. "Personally," he had told an audience in Hastings, "I have never had a great many baths myself, and I can assure those who are in the habit of having a great many that it does not make a great difference to their health if they have less...
...Quite coincidentally at the same point in the mid-Thirties psychologist Hadley Cantril succeeded in setting up the University-sponsored Office of Public Opinion Research, sole complete archives of all findings by the various agencies, as well as "Public Opinion Quarterly," the single authoritative compilation of developments within the trade...
...largest percentage increase in the University was registered by the Trade Union Fellowships, with a 66 2/3 spurt beyond last spring's nine. Largest numerical increase took place at the Law School in a total addition...