"milk (a third of a pint a day) in schools to all children under the age of 18. In 1968 Edward Short, the Labour Secretary of State for Education and Science, withdrew free milk from secondary schools. His successor, Conservative Margaret Thatcher withdrew free school milk from children over seven in 1971, earning her (among her enemies) the nickname 'Thatcher, the Milk Snatcher'. Shirley Williams abolished school milk for children under seven in 1977. Below are the three Secretaries of State responsible for the withdrawal of milk for schoolchildren, between 1968 and 1977: Education Act 1944 The Education Act 1944"
"surprisingly hard-line in its proposals for control of public spending. This included the infamous abolition of free school milk, which became the first significant Ministerial act of the new Education Secretary and future Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher; she would come to be known as ""Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher"", as a result. His death was a blow to the Heath government. Robert Carr described him as ""our trumpeter … any government needs a great trumpeter."" Edmund Dell wrote: ""His death was a tragedy for the Conservative Party and possibly for the country. He was a man of considerable intellectual brilliance and"
"Tony Durant Sir Robert Anthony Bevis Durant (9 January 1928 – 18 February 2016), also known as Tony Durant, was a British Conservative Party politician. Durant stood unsuccessfully for Rother Valley at the 1970 General Election; the seat was retained for his party by Labour's Peter Hardy. In 1971 Durant supported Thatcher's decision to end free school milk on the grounds that many children did not like it. He was the Member of Parliament for Reading North from 1974–83. After Reading's constituencies underwent boundary changes, he was the Member of Parliament for Reading West from 1983–97. During his time in"
"included Margaret Thatcher (Education and Science), William Whitelaw (Leader of the House of Commons) and the former prime minister Alec Douglas-Home (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs). During Heath's first year in office, higher charges were introduced for benefits of the welfare state such as school meals, spectacles, dentistry, and prescriptions. Entitlement to State Sickness Benefit was also changed so that it would only be paid after the first three days of sickness. As a result of the squeeze in the education budget, Thatcher ended the provision of free school milk for 8- to 11-year-olds (it had already been ended for other"
"it by the Treasury. Her decision provoked a storm of protest from Labour and the press, leading to her being notoriously nicknamed ""Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher"". She reportedly considered leaving politics in the aftermath and later wrote in her autobiography: ""I learned a valuable lesson . I had incurred the maximum of political odium for the minimum of political benefit."" The Heath ministry continued to experience difficulties with oil embargoes and union demands for wage increases in 1973, subsequently losing the February 1974 general election. Labour formed a minority government and went on to win a narrow majority in the"
"who died as a result of stardom and rich living. ""Some others who can't feed their children coz they don't have the money for milk"" - a reference to Margaret Thatcher who, as Education Secretary, abolished free school milk for primary school children and became known as ""Thatcher the milk snatcher"". ""So my best friend died in a plane crash, my brother was killed on the stage, so don't be upset if I'm angry and seem in some kind of a rage"" - refers to the death of Alex's manager and best friend Bill Fehilly, who was killed in a"
"children by Harold Wilson); the tabloid press christened her ""Margaret Thatcher: Milk Snatcher"" (Harold Wilson, a Labour prime minister, had received no criticism). Despite these measures, the Heath Government encouraged a significant increase in welfare spending, and Thatcher blocked Macleod's other posthumous Education policy: the abolition of the Open University, which had recently been founded by the preceding Labour Government. Provision was made under the 1970 National Insurance (Old Persons' and Widows' Pensions and Attendances Allowances) Act for pensions to be paid to old people who had been excluded from the pre-1948 pension schemes and were accordingly excluded from the"
"milk-chugging has also been the centerpiece for a photographer and artists' show in 2005, where he featured an image entitled ""Milk Chuggers"" and a video called """"The Milk Chugger"""", where he films himself drinking milk until he vomits. In 2009, Jimmy Fallon held a milk-chugging contest on NBC's ""Late Night with Jimmy Fallon"", with guests Hélio Castroneves, Ryan Briscoe and Dario Franchitti. On the broadcast, Fallon wore a rain poncho and drank chocolate milk, while the drivers drank regular milk. Also in 2009, and again in 2010, North Carolina members of the General Assembly, which included Bob Atwater, William Brisson,"
"Harvey Milk Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, where he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Although he was the most pro-LGBT politician in the United States at the time, politics and activism were not his early interests; he was neither open about his sexuality nor civically active until he was 40, after his experiences in the counterculture movement of the 1960s. In 1972, Milk moved from New York City to the Castro District of San Francisco"
"devoutly Christian"". ""Milk"" had received accolades from several film critics organizations. Milk (film) Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, a city supervisor who assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The film was released to much acclaim and earned"
"longest notes he left for Milk indicated he was upset about the Anita Bryant and John Briggs campaigns. John Briggs was forced to drop out of the 1978 race for California governor, but received enthusiastic support for Proposition 6, dubbed the Briggs Initiative. The proposed law would have made firing gay teachers—and any public school employees who supported gay rights—mandatory. Briggs' messages supporting Proposition 6 were pervasive throughout California, and Harvey Milk attended every event Briggs hosted. Milk campaigned against the bill throughout the state as well, and swore that even if Briggs won California, he would not win San"
"Michael Tuomey (politician) Michael Tuomey (1819–1887), was a nineteenth-century New York City civil servant and politician. Tuomey was a long-time politician in the rough-and-tumble world of ward-heelers and shoulder hitters of mid-nineteenth-century New York City and became nationally known for blocking sanitary laws and regulations, most notably in the area of clean milk for children. Tuomey was born circa 1819 in the city's fourteenth ward where he established his political base. As a youth he developed ties to local meat markets and became known as ""Butcher Mike."" He worked as a butcher, hat trimmer, and a keeper of a public"
"Milk (film) Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, a city supervisor who assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The film was released to much acclaim and earned numerous accolades from film critics and guilds. Ultimately, it received eight"
"in 2001, called Baby Milk Action. The Nestlé boycott also led to the alternative ""Tap Water Awards"" which ran from 2001 to 2006, and aimed to promote access to safe supplies of drinking water and sanitation in developing countries; these awards were suspended for 2007 due to ""having beaten Nestlé"". Multiple winners were chosen each year, including established comedians like Stewart Lee and Robert Newman, and, in the award's final year, promoter Peter Buckley Hill for his Free Fringe initiative. The 2002 awards were criticised because no female acts were shortlisted, the second consecutive year in which that was the"
"Peter Laird McKinlay Dr Peter Laird McKinlay FRSE FSS (1901-1972) was a Scottish medical statistician. His report on the effects of milk on schoolchildren brought about the introduction of Free School Milk in British Schools from the Education Act of 1944. He was born at Radnor Park in Dunbartonshire on 11 June 1901. He was educated at Clydebank High School. He studied Medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB ChB in 1923. He received a Diploma in Public Health in 1925 and his doctorate (MD) in 1927. He then began work as a medical statistician for the Department of Health. In"
"Aldermen E. Harrison Reed and William Tucker, shielded the dairies and turned the hearings into one-sided exercises designed to make dairy critics and established health authorities look ridiculous, even going to the extent of arguing that swill milk was actually as good or better for children than regular milk. With Reed and others, Tuomey successfully blocked any serious inquiry into the dairies and stymied calls for reform. For the rest of his career, he was caricatured as ""Swill Milk"" Tuomey. Tuomey's obstruction and his larger political career were typical of the way Tammany Hall officials dealt with many public health,"
"the election. When making a ""grand entrance"" for a speech at Conestoga College, activist Julian Ichim splashed him with two litres of chocolate milk from the front of the stage, saying he did it to protest Day's ""homophobic, anti-immigrant and anti-poor agenda"". Afterward, again on ""This Hour Has 22 Minutes"", actress Mary Walsh jokingly offered Day chocolate milk, saying: ""All they had was homo, and I knew [Day] wouldn't like that."" Day stumbled during two campaign appearances in the first week. A photo-op at a technology firm meant to illustrate a ""brain drain"" to the US was undermined when the"
"Club"" campaign which promoted the importance of eating breakfast with milk and the ""Refuel: Got Chocolate Milk"" campaign. Former California Governor Gray Davis expressed his dislike for one commercial and asked if there was a way to remove it from the air. It featured two children who refused to drink milk because their elderly next-door neighbor is energetic despite not drinking it. He is going to use his wheelbarrow when suddenly his arms snap off because, without his consumption of milk, his bones are weak and frail. The now-frightened children scream in terror and then start imbibing the fluid. From"
"the ""Got Beer?"" campaign, a parody of the dairy industry's series of Got Milk? ads, which featured celebrities with milk ""mustaches"" on their upper lips. When the mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000, PETA ran a photograph of him with a white mustache and the words ""Got prostate cancer?"" to illustrate their claim that dairy products contribute to cancer, an ad that caused an outcry in the United States. After PETA placed ads in school newspapers linking milk to acne, obesity, heart disease, cancer, and strokes, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and college officials"
"for schools to become comprehensives; the proportion of pupils attending comprehensive schools consequently rose from 32 per cent to 62 per cent. Nevertheless, she managed to save 94 grammar schools. During her first months in office she attracted public attention as a consequence of the government's attempts to cut spending. She gave priority to academic needs in schools, while administering public expenditure cuts on the state education system, resulting in the abolition of free milk for schoolchildren aged seven to eleven. She held that few children would suffer if schools were charged for milk, but agreed to provide younger children"
"initially gave the impression of being a liberal conservative. For example, he opposed the withdrawal of free school milk from the Borough's children which was happening as the result of the policy of Margaret Thatcher, then Secretary of State for Education. In October 1973, he was adopted as the prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for the Croydon Central constituency. At this time he was described as being ""an investment banker and stockbroker, age 36"". Croydon Central was a new constituency, and was initially very marginally Conservative. Moore won the seat in the February 1974 general election by a majority of 1,300"
"White, who was another city supervisor. White had recently resigned to pursue a private business enterprise, but that endeavor eventually failed and he sought to get his old job back. White was sentenced to seven years in prison for manslaughter, which was later reduced to five years. He was released in 1983 and committed suicide by carbon monoxide inhalation two years later. Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community. In 2002, Milk was called ""the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the"
"city and it will have Harvey Milk's name on it."" In 2012, Milk was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBT history and people. In November 2017 plans were presented for a stepped memorial plaza in the Castro district designed by American architecture firm Perkins Eastman. Harvey Milk Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, where he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Although he was the most pro-LGBT politician in the United"
"of tongue-in-cheek references to future events (Margaret promises that, were she in charge, ""every child in the country would have as much milk as they wanted"", as against her later reputation as ""milk-snatcher Thatcher""; and the Thatcher children make remarks related to their future notoriety for a Dakar Rally incident and an attempted African coup involving Mark Thatcher and appearance on ""I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"" involving Carol Thatcher in a jungle respectively). Crowder also speaks the line ""A grocer's daughter. A grocer, Heath?!?"" to Heath in contempt of Margaret's background, making reference to Heath's later nickname"
"can prescribe a minimum price processors must pay to farmers. One out-of-state company from which Schwegmann bought milk was Dairy Fresh Corp., an Alabama firm with a processing plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Louisiana health officials tried to impound the milk, Fontham noted, but eventually Schwegmann was allowed to bring it into the state. Such battles were ""altruistic"". ""He favored unrestricted, free competition. It's principle, nothing personal with it. He had nothing to gain at all,"" explained Schwegmann's attorney Saul Stone. Schwegmann's political career actually began as early as 1955, when he lost a primary for a Jefferson Parish seat in"
"Sponsored by John Briggs, a conservative state legislator from Orange County, Proposition 6 seeks to ban gays and lesbians (in addition to anyone who supports them) from working in California's public schools. It is also part of a nationwide conservative movement that starts with the successful campaign headed by Anita Bryant and her organization Save Our Children in Dade County, Florida to repeal a local gay rights ordinance. On November 7, 1978, after working tirelessly against Proposition 6, Milk and his supporters rejoice in the wake of its defeat. A desperate White favors a supervisor pay raise, but does not"
"Leader of the Opposition until his death in 1940. Throughout his life, Argyle showed a keen interest in the quality of Melbourne's milk supply. Argyle founded the Willsmere Certificated Milk Co. in 1898, of which he was a director until 1920. As a member of the Legislative Assembly, he objected to the metropolitan milk bill, which was intended to improve the quality of Melbourne's milk. After the bill was held up in the Legislative Council in 1921, he was nominated to a committee to consider amendments, and visited New Zealand to report on milk-supply there. Stanley Argyle Sir Stanley Seymour"
"same bill tripled the funding for schools to provide healthier alternatives for students. On the school nutrition bill he was aligned with Meriden Democrat Thomas Gaffey who also favored banning soda and snack food from Connecticut public schools. Many parents have derided this bill as the ""cupcake bill"" and consider it an affront to parental responsibility, as local schools have told children not to bring in sweets for birthday parties. In March 2008 New Haven schools enforced this law by suspending an eighth grader for selling a classmate Skittles. In May 2008 a principal in Greenwich was suspended in a"
"on the list would be quietly released. Hecht credited the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, for prompting him to undertake the effort. Hecht's name reappeared in the news in the course of the 2004 presidential election because of an event during his term in the Senate. On July 12, 1988, Hecht was leaving a Republican weekly policy lunch when he began to choke on an apple slice from his lunch of fruit salad and cottage cheese. Unable to talk to his colleagues and not wanting to vomit on them, he ran into the hallway, where Senator Kit Bond, a Republican"
"cause of infant mortality — it was sold from pushcarts all over the city, advertised, e.g., as farm-fresh milk from Orange County. Johnson was a supporter of the Tammany Hall politician Alderman Michael Tuomey, known as ""Butcher Mike"". Tuomey defended the distillers vigorously throughout the scandal — in fact, he was put in charge of the Board of Health investigation. ""Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper"" staked out Johnson's mansion at 21st and Broadway, and reported that in the midst of the investigation, Tuomey was observed making late night visits. The Board of Health exonerated the distillers, but public outcry led to"
"was necessary to stabilise the deficit"" and that ""a job needed to be done"", whilst maintaining that the Budget was ""well received"". Fine Gael's Richard Bruton responded to Brian Lenihan's claim that ""the worst is over"" by comparing the statement to former U.S. President George W. Bush declaring ""mission accomplished"" on the Iraq War in 2003. His colleague Alan Shatter accused the Government of buying off children with alcohol: ""Forget the food and milk — let them drink beer"", describing it as being from ""the Marie Antoinette school of politics"" and asking ""which comedian was employed to author this bizarre"
"Ross C. Goodman. On March 3, 2005, Goodman spoke to a group of fourth-graders at Jo Mackey Elementary School. When asked what he would take with him if marooned on a desert island, the mayor replied, ""A bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin."" When asked about his hobbies, the mayor named drinking Bombay Sapphire Gin as a favorite. Later, when asked to comment about his statements, Goodman was unapologetic: ""I'm the George Washington of mayors. I can't tell a lie. If they didn't want the answer, the kid shouldn't have asked the question."" This caused an outcry from parents whose children"
"mother Lena. Moscone Center, San Francisco's largest convention center and exhibition hall, and Moscone Recreation Center are named in his honor. Moscone and Milk also have schools named after them: George Moscone Elementary, Harvey Milk Elementary and Harvey Milk High School. Moscone's main political legacy is his opening up San Francisco City Hall to be a more diverse and inclusive place with political appointments that represented the full spectrum of the population, including minorities and the growing gay community. Despite a backlash from the old political guard and conservatives, culminating in the double assassination of Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey"