Word: morrisonism
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Edward Russell scholarship to Peter R. Morrison, of Washington...
Jubilated Liberal Pundit Harold J. Laski: "The three pivotal economic positions in the Ministry are held by Labor [War Cabinet's Greenwood, Supply's Morrison and Labor's Bevin]. Behind their occupants is the solid support of the trade unions. These are gains of an immense kind. They mean that Labor dominates the economic organization for the conduct...
...tough, one-eyed Herbert Morrison, popular Leader of the London County Council (in effect "Mayor of Greater London"), a Socialist of the same practical stamp as Bevin who keeps in his office a small, framed portrait of Nikolai Lenin, went the job of Churchillizing the new setup. This he did by putting British war industries on a 24-hour production schedule, with twelve-hour shifts, such as are being worked in France and Germany, and sounding off with gruff eloquence: "There is time for nothing now but an intense, concentrated effort of muscle, mind and will. . . . The peace and civilization...
...WORK LIKE HELL!" was presently adopted by Trade Unionist Ernest Bevin as the slogan of the Ministry of Labor and he soon rivaled Socialist Morrison with a ringing radio declaration: "Machine tools and instruments of production are now more valuable than gold. . . . I want another [sixth] column in Britain-a National Service Column resolved to win, and to win quickly! . . . It will deal drastically with anyone who seeks to hinder us in our crusade...
...Luxembourg; and last week, with Luxembourg gone and Belgium going, England (and France) began rushing tonnage orders to the U. S. for steel products. If Britain is using precious foreign exchange while disemploying her own most efficient mill in order to protect the cartel's price structure, Herbert Morrison will have something to say to Montagu Norman...