Word: daltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Return of the Bad Men (RKO Radio] has enough bad men in the cast to stock a year's output of westerns. It includes such semi-legendary desperadoes as Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Doolin, Wild Bill Yeager, The Arkansas Kid, Cole, Jim & John Younger, Emmett, Bob & Grat Dalton, and the Sundance Kid. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a case of too many crooks: most of these villains, though fairly well cast and reasonably picturesque, merely get in the way of each other's villainy...
When Hugh Dalton, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, blurted himself out of the cabinet and into the penitential back benches of the Labor Party (TIME, Nov. 24), no one expected he would have to stay there for long. Early last week the dunce cap was off and he was back again, this time as Chancellor of The Duchy of Lancaster.* He had talked himself back just as effectively as he had talked himself out-or, as London's doggerel-of-the-week...
...Dalton's talk over the last few months had been loud, adroit, and full of discomfiture to the government. It was also skillfully aimed at the Labor Party gallery. At last month's Party conference at Scarborough, Dalton's "Keep Left" speeches had been well-received by rank & file delegates ; they elected him to the Party Executive by a whopping vote. For Laborites who thought that Cripps was going ahead too slowly with the Socialist revolution (or that the government was showing too much concern for middle-class and professional support in the 1950 elections), Dalton...
Ensconced in his new job last week, Dalton gave orthodox British Socialists a sample of what they like to hear. Said he: "The Tories always kept you on short rations and left the rich more than their share . . . We are going to turn that upside down. We are going to have plentiful supplies and share them out fairly...
Last week Screen Writers Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson, who had been found guilty of contempt by District of Columbia juries, were each sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $1,000. The other eight of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"-who had also refused to answer when asked whether or not they were Communists-waived jury trials. They agreed to rest their fate on the outcome of appeals to higher courts by Trumbo and Lawson...