Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority the following night when the Tories drove home their attack on the meat shortage. The Laborites squirmed, because their unity on this point was false and their consciences were burning. The day before, in a caucus of the Parliamentary Labor Party, they had turned on Food Minister Maurice Webb and berated him for incompetence. What were they to tell their meat-hungry constituents, they asked the luckless Webb...
...meeting became so explosive that Attlee stepped to Webb's defense, bringing with him the bogeyman that keeps all Laborites awake-the ghost of Ramsay Macdonald. Would Labor split on meat, and go down to defeat as Macdonald's divided party had in 1931? The caucus was stilled into grumbling acquiescence...
...Society, the little core of intellectuals who began back in 1884 to preach the inevitability of socialism without revolution, finally got around to choosing a new president. The choice: Sir Stafford Cripps, now in Switzerland un der treatment for a spinal ailment. He succeeds his aunt, the late Beatrice Webb, the society's first and only other president, who died...
...Webb, informing the marines what they are fighting for and making a spiel for future preparedness. The long speech and its reception are out of character, out of place, out of keeping with almost everything that has gone before...
...first few days under censorship, the blue pencils were light and copy flowed along smoothly. But at week's end the honeymoon ended. Eighth Army Headquarters in Korea ordered NBC's Kenneth Kantor and U.P.'s Peter Webb confined to quarters for a "gross security violation" in disclosing prematurely the death of Lieut. General Walton Walker in a jeep accident (see WAR IN ASIA). Full field censorship was ordered for all press copy, and telephones used by newsmen covering Eighth Army Headquarters were removed...