Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin last week mulled the problem of filling the hole in his "National" Government made by Secretary of State for the Colonies James Henry ("Jim") Thomas' resignation after last April's scandalous Budget leak (TIME, June 1 et ante). Jim Thomas, after a week's brooding, returned the seals of the Colonial Office to King Edward VIII. A few hours later his son Leslie Thomas, whose clients had made a killing by insuring themselves against tax rises in the Budget, resigned from the Stock Exchange firm of Belisha & Co. This week, however, a court...
Evidence, all of it circumstantial, continued to point last week to His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies James Henry Thomas as the source of the Budget leak which enabled sure-thing gamblers to bilk British insurance firms of over half a million dollars (TIME, May 25). On the evening that lean, bespectacled Mr. Justice Porter & associates wound up their investigation of this breach of Cabinet confidence, Cockney Jim Thomas, onetime locomotive wiper who became the friend of kings, sat down and wrote as follows...
Canada's Conservative Richard Bedford Bennett is now the dignified, correct and unpopular leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Last week in Ottawa, this onetime premier rose before the Budget Committee in the House of Commons to denounce the duty-free entrance of U. S. publications and syndicate features into Canada, to flay some of the Dominion's most vulgar and popular U. S. comic-strip importations...
...made this year by the Red Book, amounting to over $500 in all, will be turned over to the Council. Of this amount $200 will be given as a scholarship next year to some member of the Class of 1939. The remainder will be kept in the Council's budget to guarantee the 1940 Red Book Committee...
Minister of Budget-Maurice Palmade...