Word: willink
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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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