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...Teatime Touch. With the benign air of the family's favorite aunt, florid, white-haired Party Chairman Lord Woolton rose on the flower-lined platform to announce good news. Conservative membership had risen from 1,200,000 to 2,250,000 from December 1947 to June 1948. Recent public opinion polls had shown that the Tories were ahead. But the delegates realized that they were still far from home. Said one: "The tide is turning. We must harness it to our projects." Said another: "But what are our projects...
...week, the score was: Labor, 10,827; Conservative, 8,874; Liberal, 910. In 1945 the Labor Party had carried the Edge Hill district by a margin of 6,039. Last week's vote was a loss of some 2,300 votes for Labor. Said Conservative Party Chairman Lord Woolton: "The drastic lowering of the Government majority . . . in this largely working-class district is a most heartening sign...
...union organization. She was elected as a Communist to Manchester's City Council, then switched to the Labor Party, which elected her to Parliament in 1924. There, shrill-voiced but quick-witted, she was in frequent clashes with such debating stalwarts as Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Lord Woolton (once her schoolteacher...
...being spent at the rate of $50,000,000 a month; at that pace it will be exhausted by March 1948. (The rate of expenditure was not specified in the loan agreements, but, unofficially, British spokesmen said a year ago that the U.S. loan might last until 1951.) Lord Woolton, chairman of the Conservative Party, bluntly told a London audience that he could now see "no chance" of Britain's repaying the U.S. loan...
Through driving rain, Rotherhithe dockers and housewives plodded to the polls, elected Laborite Robert Joseph Mellish by a 4,444 majority. Twitted by jubilant Laborite Herbert Morrison, Tories replied: "Wait until tomorrow." With the U.S. Republican slogan "Had enough?" Tory leaders Lord Woolton and Anthony Eden had energetically stumped the former Tory stronghold of North Paddington, which had only gone Labor in the last general election. But middle-class North Paddington elected Laborite William James Field by a 3,000 majority...