Word: daltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them seem to want a Socialist United States of Europe or none at all. In Paris last fortnight, at a convention of European Socialists, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Daiton told why he and other Labor M.P.s who shared his views would boycott The Hague conference. Said Dalton: "As Socialists we must make sure that the success of the Socialist policy ... is not jeopardized by the premature creation of a political union . . . The federation of Europe will work only if it is led by Socialists." Cried the Laborite Daily Herald: "There is only one way to organize a world...
Spring. In Wichita, 15-year-old Dalton Fanning proved to his sweetheart that he was no coward, by shooting his right...
Last week when it went under, the New Masses took a little comrade along with it. Mainstream, a literary quarterly that had shared Author Howard Fast* (who is under a three-month sentence for contempt of Congress), Screenwriters John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo (who were charged with contempt in the House Un-American Activities Committee hearing) and others, was suspending after a year of life. New Masses Editor Joseph North had already jumped aboard the Daily Worker (as staff writer). Most of his associates (e. g., Richard O. Boyer, New Yorker writer) had other ways of making a living...
...Dalton's successor, Sir Stafford ("The Brain") Cripps, now at the pinnacle of his power, has more rigorous ideas than Dalton on the fiscal policy of a Socialist Government (TIME, Nov. 10). The first Cripps budget, to be presented in April, may contain more drastic provisions...
...another Dalton tax measure, allowing only half the money spent on advertising to be deducted as business expenses in computing income tax, the Wall Street Journal pungently commented: "The hate of the Marxians ... for advertising is no mere whim. If you believe that the purpose of making and selling things is to furnish people what they choose to have, advertising appears useful. . . . But if you believe that the mass of consumers are subhuman, bound to do something foolish and destructive if left to themselves . . . advertising is a terrible thing. It is likely to cause people to want something and [that...