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...voice waxed too, and earned for Hugh Dalton the nickname "Booming Bittern." Many a Tory never forgave this product of aristocratic Eton and King's College, Cambridge, for joining the Labor Party after World War I. He was called a traitor to his class. Among Laborites, sarcastic Tory-lasher Dalton won honors, if not complete confidence. During World War II he served first as Minister of Economic Warfare, later as President of the Board of Trade. After the war, Clement Attlee made him Chancellor of the Exchequer, traditionally No. 2 post in the British Cabinet. Recently, as Sir Stafford...
...creditors of the company. Last week Mr. Hertz said. "I was only a surgeon." referring to the $39.000.000 he lopped off the company's expenses, including $6.000,000 in salary reductions. Associated with Mr. Hertz in his Paramount venture were the late William Wrigley Jr. and Albert Davis Lasher. Last week Mr. Hertz said he would spend the winter in Miami, then return to Chicago and the racing stables which produced Reigh Count and Anita Peabody. Austrian-born Mr. Hertz sold his school books when he was 11 and became a copy boy, then assistant sports editor...
...Lasher 1917, cox, is 21 years old. He is 5 feet 4 inches tall, and weighs 105 pounds...
...three more changes were necessary before the first crew was the ship she should be. These changes were made as follows. Harriman was brought to bow in place of Hadley; Sturtevant and Captain Low exchanged places of 5 and 3 respectively; and the veteran coxswain McLane was replaced by Lasher, for it was thought that a lighter man would be more desirable in the stern...
...finish. The time was about 2 minutes, 40 seconds, which even with the present weather conditions is very poor. There seems to be a bad check in this Yale shell, which Coach Nichalls is doing his best to remedy. McLane, the experienced Yale coxswain, today lost his plac to Lasher, and the only assignable reason is that McLane has become too corpulent to hold down his job at the extreme stern...