Word: lapper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Wilfred Mark Lapper, 58, chairman of the board of the Yorkshire area of Britain's nationalized electricity industry, always wanted a room with a view. He and his staff saw no reason why working folk should labor in smoky towns, if they could do their jobs equally well in nicer surroundings. Especially if the working folk were Colonel Lapper...
...Leeds, where 28,000 people were waiting for permits to build homes and where factories are often short of electricity. Their complaints about Scarcroft's blazing floodlights, its elaborate wrought-iron gateway and its superb kitchen reached the receptive ears of Tory Donald Kaberry, M.P. Kaberry denounced Lapper and his board in the House of Commons as "little tsars of the government's creation [who] build their Kremlins . . . and shrink from the wrath of public opinion." The Attorney General ordered an investigation...
...things are simply not done. At Leeds Assizes, it was punished accordingly. This week, the Yorkshire Electricity Board was due to pay a whopping $56,000 fine for misusing public funds-the fine, as well as the overspending, eventually to come out of the consumers' pockets. Rueful Colonel Lapper, who had wanted nothing more than a room with a view, begins a six-month stay in a former Army detention barracks, now used as a county jail...