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Britain's aging Queen Victoria, pottering about the halls of Windsor Castle in 1892, came upon a five-year-old boy eating grapes. She gave him a kindly pat on the head, for he was the son of her personal chaplain, Canon J. N. Dalton. "Go away, Queen," shouted the brash little boy, "I'm eating grapes." Unamused, the Queen exclaimed: "What a loud voice that...
...little boy waxed-eventually to 6 ft. 3 in. The voice waxed too, and earned for Hugh Dalton the nickname "Booming Bittern." Many a Tory never forgave this product of aristocratic Eton and King's College, Cambridge, for joining the Labor Party after World War I. He was called a traitor to his class. Among Laborites, sarcastic Tory-lasher Dalton won honors, if not complete confidence. During World War II he served first as Minister of Economic Warfare, later as President of the Board of Trade. After the war, Clement Attlee made him Chancellor of the Exchequer, traditionally...
...from the microphone. The committee then noted evidence of Communist allegiance (including photostats identified as their Communist Party membership cards) ; started the contempt proceedings rolling through the full committee to Speaker Joe Martin. By the third day they had cited eight: Writers John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, Samuel Ornitz, Director Edward Dmytryk, Producer Adrian Scott, Writer-Director Herbert Biberman...
Within a fortnight of his appointment, Cripps had come to overshadow Attlee and Herbert Morrison and even Ernest Bevin. Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton sulked in Cripps's long shadow. The Government now had direction, drive and vision. If British recovery failed under Cripps it would be because 1) world conditions forbade recovery, or 2) democratic socialism would not work, or 3) both...
...gold to the U.S. As Britain has now drawn $180,000,000 from the Fund, she can draw only around $151,000,000 more. Her total gold and dollar reserves are now down to some $2,500,000,000. Despite new cuts in imports, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton said that the sterling area's gold and dollars are still being drained "at a ruinous rate of $70,000,000 a week...