Word: willink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slamming over every flying bomb he had on hand before the Allied troops swept him out of France, took his launching sites. Soon he might be sending over even bigger, deadlier robombs from sites in the Low Countries or Germany. Said Health Minister Henry U. Willink, standing amid ruins...
...post will be taken by rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into little, vague Alfred Duff Cooper's place as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Duff Cooper became envoy to the French in tempestuous Algiers...
...Government appointed the distinguished barrister and World War I veteran Henry Urmston Willink as Coordinating Commissioner for Rehousing to handle problems of getting bedding, furniture, etc., for the homeless. Sir Warren Fisher, who has served since 1919 as head of the entire British Civil Service, was appointed Coordinating Commissioner of Repairs to bomb-damaged water, gas, electricity, telephone and sewer services, as well as roads. Winston Churchill gave both his new Coordinating Commissioners dictatorial power over all local political authorities, public-utility companies and even over Government departments...
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