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Prominent Laborite Dr. Hugh Dalton, who is no Communist and was long the Labor Party's chief expert on foreign affairs, proposed that the "very rich" be taxed two pounds for every pound of their incomes, the odd pound being collected by a capital levy. Cried Dr. Dalton: "Six per cent of the population of this country hold 80% of the property, and less than 2% hold 40% of the property. This is an injustice which our soldiers, sailors and airmen certainly are not fighting to maintain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Debts and Taxes | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...long-range Lockheed P-38. Germany has: the cannon-carrying Messerschmitt Me. 110, a twin-engine speedster that will be used to keep the Spitfires and Hurricanes, the French Moranes and American Curtisses off the backs of busy bombers. Last week in the House of Commons, when Laborite Hugh Dalton observed that Britain had no counterpart of the Me. no, there was no one there to contradict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Figures | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

That afternoon Bigger is hired as chauffeur by Philanthropist Dalton, who makes his money in Negro tenements. It is a good job except for the philanthropist's radical daughter Mary. His first instructions are to drive her that evening to a lecture. She redirects him to a rendezvous with her Communist lover. What follows, as baffled and suspicious Bigger is accepted as a comrade, is one of the most devastating accounts yet printed of that tragicomic, Negrophilous bohemianism which passes among Communists as a solution of the Negro Problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Nigger | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...champion now regarded as the Man o' War among leapfrogs because of the long line of winners he has sired. In fine fettle and raring to go, Budweiser IV was counted on to smash the 13 ft. 5 in. mark set last year by Emmett Dalton, a mud-colored hoptoad reared on the late Will Rogers' Claremore, Okla. ranch. When the leaping subsided, it was announced that not Budweiser IV but the 1936 winner, Zip, had broken the world's record, hopping the mighty hop of 15 ft. 10 in. He was promptly acclaimed the jumpingest frog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Jumping Jubilee | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Chicago--Luncheon at the Palmer House, 12:30 o'clock, December 21. Secretary, Philip S. Dalton, Jr., '31, 135 S. La Salle St., Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20 Harvard Clubs Throughout Country Will Hold Christmas Holiday Dinners | 12/17/1937 | See Source »

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