Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ability in administering the thorny ministries of Pensions and Agriculture, has been described as "everybody's second choice for every senior post in the government." Thorneycroft was the first Chancellor of the Exchequer to resign in protest against government policy since 1886, when Lord Randolph Churchill. Sir Winston's father, quit the Cabinet of Lord Salisbury.* Despite all Harold Macmillan's reassurances, so drastic a protest inevitably stirred fears that the government was, in fact, backing away from the stern fiscal policies that have halted the drain on Britain's gold and dollar reserves and stabilized...
Landau's performance was especially fine and indicated that he may be nearly invincible in Ivy League competition. He was beaten only by Charley Pratt of the Philadelphia Pioneer Club and Elias Gilbert of Winston-Salem Teacher's College, both consistent winners in national-level meets...
...mile relay team was less successful. The Crimson finished fourth in a race against Georgetown, Yale, and Winston-Salem. Joel Landau, Dave Brahms, Pat Liles, and Lee Barnes ran for the varsity with the last two mentioned turning in the best performances...
BILLION-DOLLAR CLUB will be joined by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem), 43rd U.S. company to enter. Reynolds' sales in 1957 topped $1 billion for first time, due largely to Winston. But Reynolds is still trailing the $1.1 billion American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Hit Parade...
Died. John Anderson, 75, 1st Viscount Waverley of Westdean, stiff-necked first Home Secretary in Winston Churchill's wartime Cabinet, after whom Britons named their tiny, corrugated-iron, backyard air-raid shelters ("Anderson Shelters"), later (1943-45) Chancellor of the Exchequer, who represented Britain at the 1944 Bretton Woods monetary conference; of bronchial pneumonia; in London...