Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party. Conservative prestige reached a wartime low last month when Churchill's friend, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, was defeated in a by-election by William D. Kendall, an unknown Independent (TIME, April 6). This week another friend of Churchill's, War Minister Sir James Grigg, is standing for Parliament. Fortunately for Mr. Churchill, Sir James is not a Conservative. No politician, he has spent most of the last 30 years in the Civil Service, but when Mr. Churchill made him War Secretary last February he was obliged to become an M.P. Sir James decided...
...known writers (Paul Green, Gladys Hasty Carroll) who find writing for children fun, and many an obscure playwright who hopes to get attention. Last week one of them clicked: the U.S. Treasury Department was so impressed with a play about defense bonds (You Can Count On Us) by an unknown named Bernard J. Reines that it ordered 50,000 copies, will distribute them to public schools throughout the land...
...ball team remains as unknown quantity, having played no contests to date. It is reputed, however, to be a hard-hitting rookie outfit, with centerfielder Captain Charlie Thomas the only member of the starting lineup to face the Crimson last year. Slugging rightfielder Carl Erickson has been benched with a leg injury received in football last fall...
...Italy scheme, it sounds like another example of the Gallipoli at which Colonel Kernan rails so effectively. Unless he has information on the present control of the Mediterranean which is unknown to the layman he would appear to speak unwisely. He may continue to dismiss the value of sea power with the pat chapter title "Mahan Was Wrongl," but until he brings facts rather than sarcasm to bear on the Admiral's theory, control of the sea lanes will still have a certain appeal to warring powers and the Mediterranean will still be a difficult "mare nostrum" in which...
...Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, onetime chief of the R.A.F. in the Middle East, was defeated as Conservative candidate in a by-election. Winner (by 367 votes) was an unknown Independent candidate, William Denis Kendall, black-haired, blue-eyed, 38-year-old manager of a Grantham war-production factory. It was the first time in 44 elections since the Party truce went into effect that a full-fledged Conservative candidate had been defeated by an Independent...