Word: normanton
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...practical reasons why Shinwell would not be ousted from the Cabinet now. He was still extremely popular with the miners; if he were axed, there might be trouble in the pits. A measure of that factor came last week in a by-election in the Yorkshire mine area of Normanton. There the Labor candidate got 80% of the total vote, a drop of only 4% from last year's general election...
Another of the speakers had occasion to refer to the Netherlands. She was Mrs. Helena Normanton (Mrs. Gavin Clark), first married woman to be admitted to the English Bar under her own name, a woman who, in addition to prefixing "Mrs." to her maiden name, is "plump and very pretty, with a genuine blond complexion that would make even a show girl respect nature." Said she to her fellow diners...
...Normanton undoubtedly referred to the Hague Tribunal and the Permanent Court of International Justice...