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Tom O'Brien (trade unionist)

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Sir Thomas O'Brien (17 August 1900 – 5 May 1970) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was also a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1959.

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  • [Britons] would rather take the risk of civilizing communism than being kicked around by the unlettered pot-bellied money magnates of the United States.
    • Quoted by The New York Times (23 August 1949) p. 4. Reported in Suzy Platt (ed.) Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989) p. 104, no. 532
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