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...Hugh Dalton, Labor's shy new Chancellor of the Exchequer, had quite an audience. Present in the House of Commons were three distinguished predecessors: Winston Churchill, Sir John Anderson, Viscount Simon. Ex-cabbies and miners among the new Labor Members, many of them sitting on the floor of the overcrowded House, critically eyed their man. From the packed gallery peered the Bank of England's Governor Lord Catto. To lords and cabbies, Hugh Dalton was about to open the new Socialist Government's first budget...
...nationalization of "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" was not painless, it was at least a well-anaesthetized operation. Said Bank Governor Lord Thomas Sivewright Catto, after reading the bill: "I have confidence in the skill and understanding of the surgeon [Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton]. . . . He is well aware of the venerable age and the worldwide prestige of his patient...
...band of infuriated housewives should force Mr. Dalton [Hugh Dalton, Board of Trade president, clothing rationing boss and hence Minister in charge of corsets] into a utility corset and a pair of the best-fitting utility stockings he can buy. I would add a saucy black felt hat for which he had to pay four guineas [$16.80] and a pair of those ghastly wooden-soled shoes...
...Wright got action. Mr. Dalton's Board announced release of enough steel to make 1,750,000 corsets. But the Corset Advisory Board warned British women that new corsets are not just around the corner. The Board (nine middle-aged men) proposed to spend all summer inspecting and approving models...
Last summer, Hugh Dalton, president of the Board of Trade, called in pioneer industrial art designer Charles Tennyson, grandson of the Poet Laureate, appointed him chairman of an advisory committee. The committee included architects, social workers, furniture manufacturers, designers, and one working-class housewife...