Word: welshman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of Dwyfor, 82, Britain's Prime Minister during World War I, last surviving member of the first Big Three (the others: Wood-row Wilson and France's Clemenceau); of complications following influenza; in Llan-ystumdwy, Wales. Through five reigns and three wars, the fiery, witty, flamboyant Welshman enlivened the House of Commons. A combination of zeal, oratory and energy pushed him, step by step, to leadership of the Liberal Party, the British Government, and finally the Empire...
...team during an England v. Australia Test Match to attend the birth of his son in 1895. Arthur was born in Brisbane, but grew up and was educated in New Zealand, prefers to be known as a New Zealander. "Lloyd George," he says, "is known as a Welshman, yet he was born in Manchester." Coningham's odd nickname, "Mary," is a corruption of Maori, which means a New Zealand aborigine. In the service of a country whose red-blooded he-men are often Cyrils, Cuthberts, Clarences and Vivians, he does not mind being called "Mary." But he strenuously objected...
Ernest Bevin, the bull elephant of British labor, last week sat bulkily silent, beadily watchful, in the back row at a caucus of Parliament's Laborite members. The proposal: to expel from the Party his homonym-pink, grizzled Welshman Aneurin Bevan. The crime: Laborite Be-van's revolt against Labor Minister Bevin in the House of Commons...
...Royal Armored Corps, as an Independent candidate to Parliament. Until the draft abruptly silenced him two months ago, Owen was one of Britain's loudest objectors to 2D. Crack editor of Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, tall, flamboyant Owen, who called himself a "Sudeten Welshman," had struck awakening punches against British war lethargy, led the fight for a Second Front. He was called up this spring, immediately after Beaverbrook left for the U.S. Some thought it unusual that he was not deferred, as other key British newsmen have been, although he did not ask for deferment. Should...
...TIME, Jan. 5 and Feb. 2, reported claims that: 1) Marshal Timoshenko is the son of a Welsh technician named Charles Jenkins; 2) the Marshal was born in Youzovka, allegedly named after a Welshman, one Hughes...