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  James Callaghan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Callaghan was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967 during a turbulent period in the British economy in which he had to wrestle with a balance of payments deficit and speculative attacks on the pound sterling.
Callaghan was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport in 1947 where his term saw the introduction of zebra crossings, and an extension in the use of cat's eyes.
Callaghan's support for and from the union movement should not be mistaken for a left wing position: unlike Wilson Callaghan had been a supporter of Hugh Gaitskell in the battles over labour's direction in the 1950s and he settled old scores by sacking the Bevanite Barbara Castle when he became party leader.
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 Morley Callaghan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Callaghan was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario.
Callaghan's novels and short stories are marked by undertones of Roman Catholicism, often focusing on individuals whose essential characteristic is a strong but often weakened sense of self.
Callaghan was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal in 1960.
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 James Callaghan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, PC (born 27 March 1912), was Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979.
Callaghan was the son of a Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer of Irish ancestry, who died when he was 9.
Callaghan served in the Royal Navy Patrol Service in World War II from 1943, but while on leave he was able to get selected as a Parliamentary candidate for Cardiff South East.
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 Telegraph | News | Lord Callaghan of Cardiff
Callaghan was immediately elected chairman of the party's defence committee, and took a close interest in the demobilisation of hundreds of thousands of troops still overseas.
Callaghan had always curried favour with the trade unions, because they were essential to his power base and his hopes of the leadership.
Callaghan's accession to the premiership in April 1976 was the culmination of a remarkable career of political survival.
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 MSN Encarta - James Callaghan
Callaghan, James, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff (1912-2005), British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979.
In 1945 Callaghan was elected to Parliament representing Cardiff.
Callaghan later emerged as a vocal critic of Labour leader Tony Blair, who was elected prime minister in 1997.
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 Callaghan Family - Town of Charlton, Saratoga County, NY
Melancton B. Callaghan, one of the leading merchants of Charlton and the southeastern part of Saratoga county, is a man of excellent character and high standing in his community, where he has been unusually successful in the various business enterprises in which he had been engaged.
Melancton Callaghan, in 1861 purchased from Sarah Bradt, a substantial house, and land, in the hamlet of Charlton.
Melancton Bostwick CALLAGHAN was born on 4 Mar 1822 in Charlton,Saratoga,NY.
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 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Ex-British Prime Minister Callaghan dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Callaghan succeeded Prime Minister Harold Wilson in April 1976, in the dying days of Britain's post-World War II consensus politics, and governed until May 1979, when strikes, financial crises and party divisions cost him the election against Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party.
Callaghan, who entered Parliament as a Labour Party lawmaker in 1945, was the only British politician to hold, at different times, the four posts of prime minister, Treasury chief, foreign secretary and home secretary.
Leonard James Callaghan was born March 27, 1912, in the southern port city of Portsmouth to a Catholic father and Baptist mother.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - James Callaghan
Callaghan introduced a number of controversial new taxes intended to raise revenues, including an imports surcharge and other measures.
Callaghan became the first person to hold the positions of chancellor of the Exchequer, home secretary, and foreign minister before becoming prime minister.
In 1987 Callaghan retired from the House of Commons and was made a life peer in the House of Lords as Lord Callaghan of Cardiff.
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 Callaghan, Morley Edward
Callaghan, Morley Edward, novelist, short-story writer, broadcaster (b at Toronto 22 Feb 1903; d there 25 Aug 1990).
In these novels, Callaghan maintains his concern with the meaning of spirit in the temporal world.
In 1975 Callaghan published A Fine and Private Place, a novel in which a writer is both the hero and victim of a new generation.
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 Callaghan resigns from skating club
Callaghan's resignation, presented to the private club's board two weeks ago and discussed at its meeting Tuesday night, comes amid a swirl of concerns and rumors circulating in the international skating community about the coach.
Callaghan, 53, who didn't want to discuss those issues Tuesday, said he thought about retiring after the 1998 season but decided with wife Mandy, who also coaches at the club, to wait until after this season.
Callaghan's arrangement with the Nikodinovs -- who split with her coach, Peter Oppegard, after winning the bronze at the U.S. championships -- is through the world meet.
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 Callaghan
Callaghan sailed from the west coast 5 February 1944 to plunge into action with fast-striking 5th Fleet in smashing air raids on the Palaus, Yap, Ulithi, and Woleai from 30 March to 1 April.
On 9 July 1945, Callaghan took station on the embattled radar picket line, where on 28 July she drove off a biplane intent on suicide with well-directed fire, but the plane, skimming low and undetected, returned to strike Callaghan on the starboard side.
Callaghan sank at 0235, 28 July 1945, with the loss of 47 members of her valiant crew.
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 Handbook of Texas Online: CALLAGHAN, BRYAN V., JR.
Bryan V. Callaghan, Jr., political boss, county judge, and mayor of San Antonio, son of Bryan V. and Concepción (Ramón) Callaghan, was born in San Antonio on April 1, 1852.
Callaghan was elected alderman in San Antonio in 1879.
Callaghan may have used irregular methods in the accomplishment of these goals, but he did not benefit personally from the power he wielded; he had built up no personal fortune when he died in his San Antonio home on July 8, 1912.
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 Oliver Kamm: James Callaghan
Callaghan also did his best to cope with a feckless and vacillating US President with minimal experience in international affairs, Jimmy Carter.
A point that I did not see raised in the obituaries was that Callaghan, while being a model of loyalty to his party successors compared with the comparable relationships in the Conservative Party, was prepared to voice his opposition to Labour’s unilateralist disarmament policies in the 1980s.
Predictably, Callaghan was castigated by more frenetic members of the Labour Party (‘Guilty Men’ ran the headline in the post-election issue of Tribune) but he was talking sense.
oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2005/03/james_callaghan.html   (1448 words)

  
 James Callaghan
In Opposition Callaghan became Shadow Foreign Secretary, and in government after 1974 it was his job to renegotiate the terms of Britains EC membership.
As PM Callaghan - described as 'big, relaxed and handsome' -  presided over a sterling crisis, which led to negotiations with the IMF for a rescue package, but he did keep his Cabinet team together during the controversy over the conditions set.
Callaghan was obliged to hold a general election, which was won by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party.
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 Telegraph | News
Callaghan's defenders would say it was his historic misfortune to hold the reins of power at a time both of galloping inflation and industrial strife, symbolised by the 1978-79 Winter of Discontent.
Leonard James Callaghan was born in Portsmouth on March 27 1912, the son of a naval chief petty officer.
Callaghan was awarded a life peerage, as Lord Callaghan of Cardiff, in 1987.
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 Callaghan coat of arms
Sir George Astley O Callaghan (1852 - 1920), a London-born O Callaghan who was the son of an army captain, was the admiral who commanded the frigate that entered Peking in 1900 during the rising of the "Harmonious Fists", commonly known as the Boxer rebellion.
Rose Mary O Callaghan Westropp of the Lismehane branch is mentioned in Burke's Irish Family Records as having painted the great jockey Pat Taafe on that most loved of Irish racehorses, Arkle.
The O Callaghans are obviously still jealous of their ancient lineage to judge from the clarification which appeared in an Irish newspaper in 1978: "Aubrey W. O Callaghan has not announced his engagement.
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 CNN.com - Former British Prime Minister Callaghan dies - Mar 26, 2005
Callaghan, a former Labor Party leader, passed away at his home in East Sussex on the eve of his 93rd birthday, the U.K. Press Association reported.
Callaghan, nicknamed "Big Jim" or "Sunny Jim," held the posts of prime minister, foreign secretary, home secretary, and chancellor of the exchequer, the Press Association said.
Lord Callaghan was in power in the late 1970s, and his government was toppled by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives.
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 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - James Callaghan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1942 Callaghan volunteered for duty in the Royal Navy, going to sea with the East Indies fleet stationed at Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
However, strikes in winter of 1978-79 led to a vote of no confidence in the Commons and defeat at the polls in a general election called in May, 1979.
Callaghan was resigned as Party leader in 1979, but remained in the Commons until 1987.
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 Morley Callaghan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Callaghan began writing stories that were well recieved and soon was recognized as one of the best short story writers of the day.
Callaghan took up Hemingway's challange to a bout and, being a better boxer, Callaghan knocked Hemingway to the ground (along with his ego).
Morley Callaghan was the subject of CBC documentary, Life & Times episode, and CBC mini-series, Hemingway Vs. Callaghan in March 2003.
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 CBC: Life And Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As one of Canada's most prolific writers, Callaghan was scrappy and unflinching in his portrayals of criminals, prostitutes and hypocritical status seekers.
As a young man, Callaghan joined The Toronto Star, where he met Hemingway for the first time, and where the seeds of his literary career were planted.
Callaghan became a literary sensation at the youthful age of 25.
www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/callaghan.htm   (382 words)

  
 Jim Callaghan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lord Callaghan was, as James Callaghan, Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Opposition from 1979 until 1980.
Leonard James Callaghan was born in 1912, son of a Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Navy.
In opposition, Lord Callaghan was spokesman on transport from 1951 to 1953; fuel and power 1953 to 1955; colonial affairs 1956 to 1961; and Shadow Chancellor 1961 to 1964.
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 Rear Admiral Daniel Judson Callaghan, by Richard Connors
Daniel Judson Callaghan was born on the 26th of July, 1892 to a devoutly Catholic and respectable family of merchants in San Fransisco.
Roosevelt also remembered Callaghan from meeting him in 1919 at the Bureau of Navigation, and so, apparently very much contrary to his wishes, Callaghan found himself as Naval aide to the president.
Callaghan and his classmate Norman Scott, aboard Atlanta, were both killed in action.
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 James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Callaghan entered the civil service at age 17 as a tax officer.
Canadian writer Morley Callaghan was best known for his use of realism and the treatment of moral problems in his fiction.
The critic Edmund Wilson referred to Callaghan as the most unjustly neglected writer in the English language.
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 British Prime Ministers: Callaghan, James (1912-)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Between 1947 and 1951 Callaghan held junior posts at the Ministry of Transport and at the Admiralty.
In Wilson's second government in 1974, Callaghan was named foreign secretary; and in 1976, upon Wilson's resignation, Callaghan succeeded him as prime minister, largely because the Parliamentary Labour Party considered him the least divisive candidate.
Callaghan's political papers are held jointly between the Archives Division of the London School of Economics and the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.
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 { Callaghan Sydney singing_publications }
Callaghan J, Thorpe W, van Doorn J, Wilson P. ‘Sing and See’, in Curriculum Innovation in Music: Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Symposium.
Callaghan, J., Thorpe, W. and van Doorn, J. (2003) Applications of visual feedback technology in the singing studio.
Callaghan, J., Thorpe, W. and van Doorn, J. Computer-assisted visual feedback in the teaching of singing.
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 Bloomberg.com: U.K.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Callaghan's time in office was marked by a surge in inflation and disputes between government and labor unions that triggered a series of strikes in 1978 known as the Winter of Discontent.
Leonard James Callaghan was born March 27, 1912, the son of a Royal Navy officer.
Callaghan served as chancellor from 1964 until 1969 when his policy of maintaining the value of the pound became impossible because of a widening current account deficit, and he was forced to devalue the British currency against the dollar.
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 Callaghan, Morley. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
During the 1920s he spent time in Paris, where he became friends with Ernest Hemingway, whose influence can be detected in Callaghan’s spare literary style; he recalls these years in That Summer in Paris (1963).
Callaghan’s novels and short stories are marked by a concern with religion and Christianity, often focusing on individuals whose essential characteristic is a strong but often unexamined sense of self.
Callaghan’s later works include The Many Colored Coat (1960), A Passion in Rome (1961), Stories (1967), A Fine and Private Place (1975), A Time for Judas (1983), and Our Lady of the Snows (1985).
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 Callaghan of Cardiff, Leonard James Callaghan, Baron
Callaghan of Cardiff, Leonard James Callaghan, Baron, 1912–2005, British statesman.
Callaghan was by nature a moderate man, but his government was plagued by inflation, unemployment, and its inability to restrain trade unions' wage demands, and foundered after a series of paralyzing labor strikes in the winter of 1978–79.
Callaghan resigned as party leader in 1980 and was created a life peer in 1987.
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 Callaghan Engineering
Callaghan Engineering has extensive experience in the process and pharmaceutical industries where hazardous areas play a significant role in the design of services.
Callaghan Engineering has specialist expertise on the calculation of emergency relief requirements for process vessels under conditions of external fire and exothermic reaction.
Callaghan Engineering personnel attend all ISPE and other seminars related to HVAC classification of facilities and new developments within the industry.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Callaghan: A Life: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
'Callaghan was regarded as the epitome of the Labour Party's right-wing establishment.
It is observed by the author that James Callaghan spans the Old and New Labour ideologues.
Callaghan strides the period of nationalisation, which turns to militancy, and a disorganised party and an unelectable cabinet.
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