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Anything You Can Do. "I wish," said Lord Woolton, who had organized the Tory campaign, "that the majority had been much bigger. I believe it would have been, if the election had been fought on the domestic issues and the financial issues facing the country. Unfortunately, it has not been; it's been fought on the cry of 'warmongering,' and that I believe is the most ungrateful cry anybody could have raised against a great man to whom the nation is vastly indebted...
...power, and find more convenient an empirical attitude: "We'll see when we have to tackle the problem and get all the facts"-which also assumes that those problems will be better tackled by practical Tories than by Socialist theorists. Partly it is due to what Lord Woolton-"Uncle Fred," the mild, silvery-haired and able chairman of the party's central office-calls "Deweyism." Overconfidence, that is, which in this case takes the form of assuming that the Tories can ride to office on Labor's bad record...
...London financial circles, traders gossiped and wondered as the stock of Selfridge's department store scooted from 31s. 9d. a share to 52s. 6d. in six months. Last week they heard the reason for the rise. Lord Woolton, chairman of the Conservative Party and of Lewis' Investment Trust Ltd., which owns a big chain of provincial department stores, had put in a $9,500,000 (?3,412,000) bid for the store. When Lord Woolton offered 65s. a share, Selfridge's Chairman Horace Holmes quickly advised his stockholders to sell. At the news, Selfridge's stock...
...Lord Woolton plans to operate Selfridge's as a link in Lewis' chain, which has always boasted that in every city where it has an outlet, it has the biggest store. In London last week, the gossip was that Woolton planned to make Selfridge's big enough so that Lewis' boast would cover London...
...Lord Woolton ("Uncle Fred") was forced to come to the aid of the lady chairman. Beaming, he raised his hands and calmed the multitude. Then he said blandly: "This is magnificent. You want the figure of 300,000 put in?" There were roars of approval. Whereupon Lord Woolton purred: "I am sure that those of us on the platform here would be very glad to have such a figure put in." The conference joyously passed a resolution including 300,000. The Labor Party had promised only 200,000 new houses. But serious Tory back-room policymakers like R. A. Butler...