Word: woolton
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Churchill's task was to dramatize a new time of trouble for Britain. The country resounded to ministerial predictions of doom. Anthony Eden: "The country is in acute and continuing danger." Food Minister Woolton: "We may not be able to maintain the new meat ration" (16? worth a week). Gloomiest of all was Chancellor of the Exchequer R. A. Butler, whose painful lot it was to propose a new national belt-tightening in Parliament. Warned "Rab" Butler: "We face the risk of being bankrupt, idle and hungry." To weather the storms, at home & abroad, Britain needed Churchill...
Anything You Can Do. "I wish," said Lord Woolton, who had organized the Tory campaign, "that the majority had been much bigger. I believe it would have been, if the election had been fought on the domestic issues and the financial issues facing the country. Unfortunately, it has not been; it's been fought on the cry of 'warmongering,' and that I believe is the most ungrateful cry anybody could have raised against a great man to whom the nation is vastly indebted...
rayon fortune, was elected to Parlia ment at 26. He promoted the Education Act of 1944, which overhauled schooling in England and Wales, and as a result, he became Britain's first Minister of Education. Butler is a spokesman for the party's aggressive "young Turks." Lord Woolton, 68, the florid, white-haired department-store tycoon and campaign organizer for the Tories -Lord President of the Council, with special responsibilities for food and agriculture. Tories call him "Uncle Fred" the Laborites call him "Uncle Woof-Woof" -in both cases behind his back. As Brit ain's wartime...
...power, and find more convenient an empirical attitude: "We'll see when we have to tackle the problem and get all the facts"-which also assumes that those problems will be better tackled by practical Tories than by Socialist theorists. Partly it is due to what Lord Woolton-"Uncle Fred," the mild, silvery-haired and able chairman of the party's central office-calls "Deweyism." Overconfidence, that is, which in this case takes the form of assuming that the Tories can ride to office on Labor's bad record...
...Lord Woolton plans to operate Selfridge's as a link in Lewis' chain, which has always boasted that in every city where it has an outlet, it has the biggest store. In London last week, the gossip was that Woolton planned to make Selfridge's big enough so that Lewis' boast would cover London...