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This was the typical Tory line, and it was only partially effective. Rebellious British housewives and bakers submitted to bread rationing, and the Labor candidates won the by-elections. But the margin of victory had been narrowed. The coal and steel workers of Pontypool, Monmouthshire rejected 24-year-old "Workingman Tory" Peter Welch (his father is a local coal merchant who still drives his cart through town) by 14,198 votes, a 26% loss for Labor since last year's national election. Labor also won only limited victories in the whitecollar, middle-class suburb of Bexley (loss since...
...Senate scrambled Party lines, produced curious alliances and strange turnabouts. At one point Alben Barkley remarked: "To see the Senator from Florida [Pepper] coming to the rescue of the American businessman and the Senator from Colorado [conservative Republican Eugene Donald Millikin] coming to the rescue of the American workingman is something wonderful to behold...
...psychological soot of war, were set for a whopping vacation binge. Brighton, finally rid of barbed wire and pillboxes, was triumphantly ready for the Easter trade. Yachts and motorboats, many of them veterans of Dunkirk, were fought over by sea-hungry landlubbers. Butlin's popular seaside camps, the workingman's country clubs, had more customers than they could handle. While most people wanted to get out of the city, some provincials wanted to get into it: Thomas Cook & Son offered an eight-guinea ($34) junket to London, complete with guided tour of the bombed areas...
...salute to the supreme tact and diplomacy of Ernest Bevin who, alone of all the King's Ministers, wears the striped trousers of the Tories and the short coat of the workingman [TIME, Sept...
Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Tory newspaper tycoon and Lord Privy Seal in Churchill's Cabinet, drew rude sounds from his ex-crony, ex-employe Michael Foot. Said ex-Beaver Boy Foot, who now wears the workingman's collar of London's Laborite Daily Herald: ''Lord Beaverbrook . . . believes in the empire. He's sincere on the subject to the point of incoherence. The only trouble is that the empire doesn't believe in Lord Beaverbrook. . . . He's the old maid of politics...