Word: daltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only one point were the delegates nearly unanimous. Careful reporters noted that 41 of them tripped over the coconut mat as they entered Clacton's garish, modernistic Oulton Hall. The 42nd, stepping carefully, was Britain's Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, who presided over the first of the secret sessions...
...anything. Otto Kruger's Waldo Lydecker, who, in his own words, "sprang from the womb with an epigram on my lips," is too amusing, turning what should have been a taut mystery into a second rate Phillip Barry drawing room comedy incidentally concerned with murder. "Laura's" John Dalton climax, so successful in the film, is inexplicably greeted by laughs in the play: the change in medium has somehow twisted the playwright's intentions...
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...
...Perhaps Dalton did not have all the answers, but opposition to the Dalton budget was perfunctory. Even Conservative speaker Anthony Eden was partially reassured: "The Chancellor has played his part," said he, though he added, "but what are his colleagues doing?" His answer came from Leeds (see below...