Word: wallasey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallasey, a child, living with foster parents, died of maltreatment...
...London, public indignation forced Home Secretary Herbert Morrison to name a committee to inquire into reports of bad moral conditions and cruelty in institutions and foster homes. Some 50 members of Parliament met with him to decide what to do. Magistrate George Reakes of Wallasey shook his fist: "It is no use fining these beasts. We must imprison them before they learn...
...from Hot Pots. Arthur Christiansen - grandson of a Danish grocer and son of a Liverpool shipwright - started newspapering by covering parish council meetings, funerals and hot pot suppers for the Wallasey (Cheshire) Chronicle. By 1929 he was assistant editor of the Sunday Express. In that job he distinguished himself the night the British dirigible R-101 crashed in France in 1930. He leaped from his bed at 2 a.m., sped to his office in pajamas, remade his paper, scooped all England...
Equally gracious was Independent Reakes, onetime mayor of Wallasey, a local A.R.P. chief who had sweated himself helping poor families during the blitz. Said he: "It is a victory for Churchill!" But Independent Reakes, like Independent Brown of Rugby, had an addendum: "Our enemies will now know that Wallasey wants a vigorous prosecution of the war with a fight to the finish. The voters are dissatisfied with party politics...
...appeared that as went Rugby and as went Wallasey, so -if a general election were held -would go Britain: not necessarily against Churchill but for a more aggressive war effort and less stuffy politics...