Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 20, the day before the Budget," testified Mr. Marriott last week, "Waterton burst into my office and told me there was going to be an increase in the income tax. Waterton said he heard it from Eves. . . . Eves got it from a great friend...
None of Jim Thomas' good friends was a better one last week than Doorman William Robinson of the Colonial Office. Evidence soon came out that Sir Alfred Butt had called on the Colonial Secretary the morning of the momentous Budget Speech. Called to the stand, Doorman Robinson swore...
...fact that Adman Bates had contracted to buy Jim Thomas' unwritten memoirs for $100,000 and had just given him a $76,000 house as part payment. For three days immediately after the Cabinet Ministers were told the contents of Neville Chamberlain's red leather Budget box, Alfred Bates and Jim Thomas played golf together. On the stand last week Jim Thomas' hearty voice became the humblest murmur...
...supposed to be a charwoman's statesman," said he, "because ever since I have been a Cabinet officer I have never arrived at my office later than 9 o'clock. . . . I have heard nine Budget statements-which is very near a record-and this is the very first time I ever heard any question of a leakage, and I have never disclosed one word to anyone...
Despite the testimony of Doorman Robinson, at least one witness was able to get the name of Jim Thomas on record as the source of the Budget leak. The evidence came from a dapper stockbroker named Reginald Marriott. Broker Marriott has in his office a customer's man named Edward Alfred Waterton, who has as a customer one Harold Eves, solicitor and secretary to Alfred Bates...