Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Alan Sainsbury first entered politics by standing as a Liberal parliamentary candidate at Sudbury in the 1929, 1931 and 1935 general elections, before joining the Labour Party in 1945. Upon being made a life peer in 1962 he sat on the Labour benches.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
It was during his trips, including a supposed trip to America during the 1920s, that Henley gathered information for his book. [3] Australian violin maker Alan Coggins and regular contributor to The Strad wrote an article in 2003 challenging the objectivity of Woodcock's editing, given, among other things, unsourced and possibly inflated ...
Sainsbury trained as a chartered accountant after leaving university. He joined the finance department of the family company, then known as J. Sainsbury, in 1956 and became a director in 1959, [1] responsible for finance. When his brother John became chairman of Sainsbury's in 1969, Simon was given the deputy chairmanship.
The title "Baron Sainsbury" was created on 3 May 1962 for Alan Sainsbury, a member of the third generation of the supermarket Sainsbury family.He was the first member of the Sainsbury family to be raised to the peerage, and chose the territorial designation of Drury Lane in his title, as Sainsbury's first shop was opened there in 1869.
[10] Simon Schama also suggests to his readers that "when you close the book, you’re not going to miss [the characters of Our Evenings] that much." [ 3 ] Other reviewers are entirely positive: Hamilton Cain, writing in the New York Times, finds "Dave [to be] a captivating protagonist, threading narrative lines as Hollinghurst skewers the ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Teixeira's book The Emerging Democratic Majority, written with John Judis (Scribner, 2002), was the most widely discussed political book of that year and generated praise across the political spectrum, from George Will on the right to E.J. Dionne on the left. It was selected as one of the best books of the year by The Economist magazine.