Word: rae
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...weak-eyed, strong-willed Herbert Morrison, a Laborite who knew London's problems from having lived in its slums and having battled to get rid of them while running the London County Council. Succeeding Morrison in the key post of Minister of Supply was cold, shrewd Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Iron and Steel Federation, who moved up from Presidency of the Board of Trade. Into the Board of Trade went handsomely mustached Captain Oliver Lyttelton, who, before the war, was managing director of British Metal Corp. and held enough other directorates...
...remained to foster unionism; the violent Irishmen who were called Molly Maguires; sainted John Siney, whose Miners' National Association of the U. S. rose, fell, and left him dying (of a broken heart, some said); the Knights of Labor, "one big union" for all workers; whiskered John Rae, first U. M. W. A. president, whose son appeared at the convention last week. There were the nameless dead-of catastrophe, foul air, killing hours in the mines; murdered by company thugs; murdered, too, by union gangs whose internecine wars reddened the rise of U. M. W. A. and John Lewis...
...final uninspiring but safe appointment, the Board of Trade (department of commerce) was handed on from Oliver Stanley last week to Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, chairman of the British Iron and Steel Federation, onetime chairman of the Central Electricity Board and never before prominent in politics. Seats will have to be found for him and for Sir John Reith in the House of Commons and by-elections in safe Conservative constituencies will soon be held for this purpose. This week, as Britain awaited further Cabinet changes, people were saying: "The generals intend...