Word: betterton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year a decision to act on this premise was taken not by Major Stanley, then Minister of Transport, but by National Government themselves. They steamrollered through Parliament last summer the new Unemployment Act, easily flattening Labor opposition. Sir Henry Betterton, then Minister of Labor, became Chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board, provided for in the new Act. Presumably he would take care of any vexatious problems which might arise. It was safe to slip in as Minister of Labor the admirable young stockbroker who is Derby's son and Londonderry's son-in-law. Sir Henry Betterton...
Chairman of the new national Board is that dry, efficient, but not unsympathetic civil servant who was Sir Henry Betterton up to Jan. 1. In the royal New Year honors he unobtrusively became a baron (TIME, Jan. 7). Last week Lord Betterton bustled about new quarters in Thames House in London, organizing a staff which will total some 5,000 dole administrators. Their job will be to see that jobless Britons between 16 and 65 whose earnings never averaged more than $25 per week receive the cash that is their due "as a matter of right and decency" providing they...
...year is George V's New Year's Honors List, for the reason that His Majesty is saving up for a spate of honors to be showered down on his Silver Jubilee (May 6, 1935). This week he upped only three subjects to the peerage: Sir Henry Betterton, Sir Wyndham Portal, Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh. To the plethora of titles with which his eldest son is burdened he added those of Admiral of the Fleet, General of the Army, Chief Marshal of the Air Force...
...private army'' instead of sticking to straight politics. Laborites accused the police of improper Fascist leanings and undue readiness at Olympia to arrest working-class hecklers. Over the weekend six Cabinet Ministers dignified British Fascism by making speeches against it. Keynoters: Minister of Labor Sir Henry Betterton: "The country must decide at the next election whether constitutional government will remain or be destroyed." Colonial Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister: "If the disaster of Dictatorship comes to England it is certain that force will be met by force." Minister of Agriculture Walter Elliot: "We want no Dictator...
...Received from Sir Henry Bucknall Betterton, Minister of Labor, precisely the sort of bill to "reform" the British Dole which might be expected from a graduate of Rugby and Christ Church College, Oxford, and a member of the arch-Tory Carlton Club...