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...without any record of what was across [he was set in type], without a proofreader, but also ask him to write the editorial--which he didn't May God and the graduates who read this sheet be merciful in their judgment." As an undergraduate editor I say Vale...
After saying Vale for the last time Conant studied here for his Ph.D., while spending his summers doing research for a private firm. In 1917 Conant went into the Scientific branch of national defense for the first time. For two years he and a group of associates worked on the ways of developing and then producing new of poison gases. At the war's end Conant returned to Cambridge with an appointment as an assistant professor of Chemistry. His brilliant work had attracted the notice of Professor Richard, chair man of the Chemistry Department...
...Party Leader Clement Attlee had thrown his native caution to the winds. He came to the meeting armed with a resolution demanding that the rebel Bevanites come to heel, without reservation. They must support, among other things, rearmament. Bevan himself, in a speech in his own constituency of Ebbw Vale, had all but threatened to withdraw from the party if such a resolution were pressed...
...Rebel Aneurin Bevan piled up a heavier than usual majority in the Welsh constituency of Ebbw Vale. The two Ministers who resigned with him, Harold Wilson and John Freeman, held their seats. So did the rest of the small camp of Bev-anites, including Sevan's own wife, Jennie Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Bevan are the only man & wife team in the House of Commons. ¶ In Plymouth, John Jacob Astor, parachutist son of a famed spitfire parliamentarian, Lady Astor, wrested his mother's old Commons seat from Laborite Lucy Annie Middleton by 710 votes. Brother William Waldorf...
Bevan acted after a week of soul-searching and intense pressure from many of his left-wing followers. His lifelong friend and political mentor, Archie Lush (until recently Bevan's political agent in Ebbw Vale), visited London and insisted that it was Bevan's duty to save and purify the government's Socialist principles. More pressure came from Bevan's wife Jennie Lee, M.P., his fellow rebel Michael Foot, M.P., and cabinet colleague and co-agitator Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade. Day after Bevan resigned, Wilson handed Attlee his own resignation...