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Labor's shy Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, was happy about...
There was class bias in the Dalton budget. Purchase taxes on pots, crockery, blankets, mattresses were reduced or removed, but not on cars or furs. Income-tax rates for a married man with two chil dren and earning $1,200 a year went down from 3% to nothing; for a man in similar circumstances earning $4,000 a year, from 30% to 24%; for the man earning $10,000 a year, only from...
...budget was the pending $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan. Without that, warned Dalton, Britain would have to cut imports sharply, revamp all figures, tighten trade controls. But the "if" grew less "iffy"; the bill for the loan was sent to the U.S. Senate floor last week with a 14-to-5 vote of approval by the Banking & Currency Committee...
...Philip Dalton...
...House of Commons, miner M.P. after miner M.P. rose to develop the Lawther theme. Tories who had fought the rising tide for years tried again to stem it. Laborite Hugh Dalton taunted them: "You haven't got your heart in it; there was no punch...