Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur Neville Chamberlain to first political rank in Great Britain and marked him as Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's probable successor. Last week tall, husky-voiced, smoldering-eyed Chancellor Chamberlain of Britain's Exchequer read to a hushed House of Commons the Empire's first sky-high-tariff budget. That speech was sufficiently historic. The obscure happening 22 months ago was Mr. Chamberlain's discreet success in getting himself appointed chairman of the Conservative Party by bumbling Party Leader Stanley Baldwin...
...split, the Naval mutiny and sterling's slide off gold?but it was the Conservative Party machine, reorganized, conciliated within itself and tuned up by Neville Chamberlain which all over England turned the Labor enemy's defeat into a rout. That rout was the reason why the 1932-33 Budget of His Majesty's Exchequer was presented to the House of Commons last week by Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor...
...Budget. Promptly at 3:21 p. m. Edward of Wales, having climbed the narrow stair in the House of Commons to the Peers' gallery, entered smiling and took the seat from which H. R. H. hears all budget speeches, the seat directly behind the clock...
Below on the oblong floor of the House, which is a great Gothic box, crisp English primroses bloomed in the buttonholes of scores of M. P.s, for Budget Day had happened to fall on "Primrose Day."** On the Government front bench sat snowy-crested Scot MacDonald between the Empire's two biggest bumblers, Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions. Exactly at 3:30 p. m. Chancellor Chamberlain rose, ruffled his notes, took a stiff stance beside the red leather despatch box and, before he began to make...
...Chamberlain took his time, began with a tribute to his famed predecessor Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, a choleric Free Trader who attacks the present Chancellor's tariff policies on any & every occasion. With the Olympian condescension of a Chamberlain, the new Chancellor declared last week: "Lord Snowden's last budget is a model example of secure but sound and sane finance. We are now £9,000,000 better off than Lord Snowden anticipated...