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Tears & Champagne. When the U.S. went to war, Lucy gave expensive going-away parties for the sons of prominent families, served the best of champagne. When an Oxnard boy was killed in action, Lucy would visit the bereaved family and bawl like a cow with a thistle in its throat. When President Roosevelt died, Oxnard newspapers carried a paragraph of solemn comment from Lucy as well as from churchmen and other civic leaders...
...House of Commons, the new Labor Government proposed a five-year extension of the tight wartime controls on labor, prices, transport, building. Tories Gad-sirred that such stuff would leave Parliament "nothing more than a Reichstag." At home recovering from a sore throat, Winston Churchill croaked of "drastic departures from our . . . way of life. . . ." The bright beacon on Big Ben's tower burned late that night, telling home-going Britons that their Parliament was still at work. Members stoked themselves with snacks and drinks. After midnight came the inevitable Labor victory: 306 votes...
...week of harmony, and this week would be another, with Winston Churchill absent, nursing a sore throat. But the calm was illusory. Troublous weeks and months of struggle were ahead...
There was standing room only in the public galleries. As the lanky, sandy-haired Finance Minister unfolded himself and got to his feet in the House of Commons, members thumped their desks in applause. James Lorimer Ilsley nervously cleared his throat, picked up a sheaf of notes, took off his glasses, put them on again, and waded into a 10,000-word speech telling what the coming year's tax picture would be. It proved to be good...
Also the public had been welcoming Army heroes on a production-line basis and was a little throat-weary. Nevertheless the Navy was determined to see that its senior hero...