Word: wilkinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliamentary Secretary to the British Ministry of Home Security Ellen Wilkinson announced last week that since the war began 28,859 people had been killed and 40,165 seriously wounded in Britain as a result of bombings. "The number of soldiers killed in air raids is about one-fiftieth of that total...
...words were Sir George Henry Wilkinson's, Lord Mayor of London. He spoke them, not to his own fellow citizens, but to 6,700 New Yorkers. His voice came over a two-way hookup to Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall one night last week. The broadcast was the most elaborate benefit performance New Yorkers had ever seen-the U. S. Theatre's Carnival For Britain, staged by the American Theatre Wing of the British War Relief Society...
Caspar R. Ordal, Palmer Osborn, William R. Reed, Robert B. Sheeks, Daniel McK. Shoot, Frants Sporon-Fielder, Thomas M. Stanton, Clayton A. Swenson, Wilbur F. Tiemann, Jr., Samuel A. Tucker, Donald J. Twombly, Gerald D. Viste, William F. Weeks, Joseph M. Wells, Raymond G. Wilkinson, William J. Wolfgram, Richard H. Wolford, William W. Wood, and George A. Work...
...official information. That Hitler had succeeded in snatching a neutral state from under the very muzzles of British naval guns could not be denied, and Neville Chamberlain's Government teetered on the brink of its worst political crisis. Millions of Britons wanted to know, said Laborite Ellen Wilkinson, how Hitler could seize Norway "with 1,500 men and three brass bands...