Word: welsh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was nowhere near a capacity audience at the Plymouth last night to hear Emlyn Williams, the Welsh actor, give the premiere of a program of readings from Dickens which he has been preparing for over a year. This was a great pity, both because an unfilled house dampens the spirits of performer and audience alike, and because the quality of Mr. Williams' rendition deserved a far more enthusiastic response...
...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...
...their parties in London. Candidates must be "adopted" by local party associations, but this is usually a mere formality. Unlike U.S. Congressmen, who make much of their being home-town boys, British M.P.s need not live in the constituencies they represent, and usually don't. Last week a Welsh miner was Labor's candidate in an English farming constituency (he was trounced); Sir David Robertson, a London businessman, won a seat in a remote Scots Highland constituency. Even Winston Churchill, who is seldom seen in a kilt, represented a Scottish constituency from...
...David Maxwell Fyfe, 51, a Scotsman who became one of Britain's famous barristers in his career, King's Counsel at 33. then Solicitor General and Attorney General -Home Secretary and also Minister for Welsh Affairs (a new post created by Churchill to appease Welsh nationalists). Fyfe was a prosecutor at the Niirnberg war crime trials, has a special interest in transport, industrial development, town & country planning. A shrewd legal brain and a strong Tory figure, he was offered the job of Minister of Labor, but turned it down. The re ported reason: the Home Secretary ship...
...horizons looked bleak enough for Gwilym (Welsh for William) Price in his Pennsylvania boyhood. At 16, when his father, a tin-mill worker, died, young Bill had to quit school to go to work. He studied stenography, clerked by day and read law at night. In 1917, he was the University of Pittsburgh's youngest law graduate (22). After a World War I stint overseas as a tank commander, he became a trust officer for what is now the Peoples First National Bank & Trust Co. At 44, he became the bank's president. In the following three years...