Word: mosleyism
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Sugar Daddy. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, $10-a-week alimony payer Frank Mosley assembled 1,000 pennies in a bucket of molasses, dug them out again after a visit to the district court...
...uproar over the release from prison of Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley continued last week. Workers aimed their ire at Laborite Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, and Labor Minister Ernest Bevin was alarmed. He feared that the anger would 1) affect war production, 2) hurt the Labor Party in the next general election...
Albert Worrall, 24-year-old shop steward in a Vickers-Armstrong factory in Manchester, was fired. During a propaganda broadcast from the plant, he had shouted "What about Mosley?" into a BBC microphone. The Manchester branch of his union, the Amalgamated Engineering Workers, threatened to strike if he were not reinstated...
Virginia-born Lady Astor, M.P., tried to shush a group of workers who were demonstrating against the recent release of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley (TIME, Nov. 29). They riotously hooted her on her way into the House of Commons. There, when she interrupted a debate, Laborite Emanuel Shinwell shouted: "Throw her out!" A Conservative Member complained that the Tories had had to "put up with" Nancy Astor for 20 years. When she applauded another remark with the usual British "Hear, hear," a Laborite cried: "Some of us would like to try." His colleagues cheered his rude suggestion that Nancy...
Politically, freedom-for-Mosley thus had a subtle effect. By deepening the rifts already present in the Labor Party, the release of Fascist Mosley may heighten the Tory chances in Britain's next general elections...