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After a successful academic career at the University of London, Gaitskell entered the civil service in 1940 as a secretary to Hugh Dalton in the Ministry of Economic Welfare. After the war, he was elected to Parliament and, as one of a group of young Socialist intellectuals, rose to the secretaryship of the Ministry of Fuel and Power. There, and as Minister for Economic Affairs and later Chancellor of the Exchequer, he held key posts in the post-war Labor government beset by economic dislocation at home and in Europe...
...Avery, Dalton J., Jr. '58; Cathcart, Robert J. '58; DiNatale, Anthony N., Jr. '59; Foker, John E. '59; Gerety, Donald C. '59; Hill, Thomas E., Jr. '59; Johanson, Ronald J. '59; Keating, James P. '59; Levin, Marshall M. '59; McLaughlin, Richard M. '59; Soucek, John...
...political force: Dwight Eisenhower twice carried the state, the first time by 80,000 votes, this year by 122,000; Virginia has two Republican Congressmen who have withstood the test of off-year elections; Democratic incumbents were hard pressed in three other districts this year; Republican State Senator Ted Dalton received more than 44% of the vote for governor in 1953. Expected to run again next year, he may threaten the organization's hold on Richmond as it has rarely been threatened before...
Meanwhile a weak Crimson J.V. eleven was downed by Princeton 19 to 6. In the first period Tiger back Tom Dalton plunged over for the first touchdown. Crimson back Tony Marlow tied up the score with a short run in the first period...
...unsuccessful attempt to gain a seat in Parliament opened his political career in 1935. When World War II began he entered the Board of Trade under Hugh Dalton and rationed coal and regulated prices. At the end of the war in spite of a heart attack which prevented him from campaigning he was elected to Parliament by 10,000 votes...