Word: dalton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking at Newcastle, hub of the nowly-nationalized coal industry, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton said bluntly that Britain was living on borrowed money and must produce more goods for export of face a lower standard of life and more unemployment...
...Hugh Dalton, Great Britain's scholarly, well-groomed Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been chosen chairman of the joint boards of governors, to succeed U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder. London had been chosen for next year's meeting place...
...colleagues on the Cabinet Committees are shy, pedantic Hugh Dalton, whose brilliant work as Chancellor of the Exchequer has created a minor sensation; erudite, aristocratic ex-Communist John Strachey, Labor's new Food Minister; ailing, aging (74) Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India; austere theoretician Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; redhaired, demonstrative Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, who used to be Morrison's Parliamentary Secretary. Bellicose Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, who is in charge of housing (only one out of five new houses may be privately built), has promised bombed-out Britons...
Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton triumphantly announced that Britain's own 2½%, 21-year domestic loan of ?415 million had been oversubscribed...
...British Communists' request for affiliation with the Labor Party, the delegates gave a resounding no (the ratio: 6-to-1). Bronzed, scholarly Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton summed up the Laborite attitude in a preconference rally speech: "We are not going to be mucked about by that lot any more...