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Harold Wilson – the subject of an enthusiastic campaign biography by Foot published by Robert Maxwell's Pergamon Press in 1964 – offered Foot a place in his first government, but Foot turned it down.
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Harold and Wilson
Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe.
BSC was formed from the assets of former private companies which had been nationalised, largely under the Labour Party government of Harold Wilson, on 28 July 1967.
Harold Wilson, then the Leader of the Opposition in the Commons, reiterated his belief that a united Ireland was the only possible solution to Northern Ireland's Troubles.
( Harold Wilson did manage a total of almost eight year as prime minister, but it was across two different spells between 1964 and 1976.
He lived to see Labour return to power under Harold Wilson in 1964, but also to see his old constituency of Walthamstow West fall to the Conservatives in a by-election in September 1967.
On 30 November 1988, a bronze statue of Clement Attlee was unveiled by Harold Wilson ( the next Labour prime minister after Attlee ) outside Limehouse Library in his former constituency.
With Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall, he was one of the editors of the 1967 May Day Manifesto, one of the key left-wing challenges to the 1964 – 70 Labour government of Harold Wilson.
King and Peter Wright were members of a group of thirty MI5 officers who wanted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of Harold Wilson, and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the leader of a government of national salvation.
In 2006 the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office ( 1974 – 76 ).
Conspiracies within secret intelligence services have occurred more recently, and led Harold Wilson in the 1960s to put in place rules to prevent phone tapping of members of parliament for example.
* The expression of the " Gnomes of Zürich ", Swiss bankers pictured as diminutive creatures hoarding gold in subterranean vaults, was coined in 1956 by Harold Wilson and gained currency in the 1960s ( OED notes the New Statesman issue of 27 November 1964 as earliest attestation ).
The Holts meeting with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | Prime Minister of the U. K Harold Wilson and Mrs Wilson in 1967.
The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.
His first Cabinet appointment was as Employment secretary under Harold Wilson in 1974, and later served as Leader of the House of Commons under James Callaghan.
He only returned to the Parliamentary Labour Group in 1963 when Harold Wilson became Labour leader after the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell.
When, in 1974, Labour returned to office under Harold Wilson, Foot became Secretary of State for Employment.
The last minority government was led by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson for eight months after the February 1974 general election produced a hung parliament.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher accepted life peerages, although Douglas-Home had previously disclaimed his hereditary title as Earl of Home.
Meanwhile, among the many V. I. P. s who came to look were U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( 22 February 1962 ), Prime Minister Harold Wilson of the United Kingdom ( 6 March 1965 ), H. M. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ( 27 May 1965 ), H. R. H.
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* 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
Janssen was born as David Harold Meyer in Naponee, Nebraska to Harold Edward Meyer, a banker ( May 12, 1906 – November 4, 1990 ) and Berniece Graf ( May 11, 1910 – November 26, 1995 ).
Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).
For a thorough defense of the Pauline authorship of Ephesians, see Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary by Harold Hoehner, pp 2 – 61.
Harold and subject
For instance, at the Stanford Research Institute, in 1972, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ initiated a series of human subject studies to determine whether participants ( the viewers or percipients ) could reliably identify and accurately describe salient features of remote locations or targets.
The use of semiotic methods to reveal different levels of meaning and, sometimes, hidden motivations has led some like Yale's Harold Bloom to demonise elements of the subject as Marxist, nihilist, etc.
* Balfour was the subject of two parody novels based on Alice in Wonderland, Clara in Blunderland ( 1902 ) and Lost in Blunderland ( 1903 ), which appeared under the pseudonym Caroline Lewis ; one of the co-authors was Harold Begbie.
The project had first been discussed by the Rank Organisation as a possible project for Joseph Losey, the exiled American film maker known for his long collaboration with writer Harold Pinter, and then was passed to Karel Reisz who, reluctant to direct another film on a Northern England subject so soon after Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ), passed it to his friend, Lindsay Anderson.
* " Alamut " is the title and subject of a short story by Harold Lamb featuring the main character Khlit the Cossack and published in Adventure in 1918.
The next morning, Nick, Sam, and Harold go jogging, and the subject of Alex's suicide comes up again.
Team Yankee is a speculative fiction novel written in 1987 by Harold Coyle, then a major in the United States Army, whose subject is the actions of a company-sized armor unit of the United States Army in the World War III scenario as depicted by General Sir John Hackett in his novel, The Third World War.
Harold Calvin Marston Morse ( 24 March 1892 – 22 June 1977 ) was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory.
Other pivotal works on the subject were published during the mid-1970s by Harold Wolpe and Michael Hechter.
Keresselidze ’ s revolutionary career is the subject of a fictionalized biography Unending Battle ( London, 1934 ) by the British army officer and writer Harold Courtenay Armstrong ( 1891-1943 ).
He and Councilman Harold Harby engaged in what was called a " feud " over various subjects, including their differences concerning the subject of continuing wartime rent control in Los Angeles, with Hahn favoring and Harby opposing.
As Prime Minister Harold Wilson read the lesson ( on the subject of beating swords into ploughshares ) at a Labour Party service at the Methodist Church in Brighton, Walter and friends interrupted by shouting " Hypocrite!
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