Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was nothing furtive or dubious about this, as Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain quietly aired the facts in the House of Commons and such British union leaders as Arthur James ("Emperor"') Cook cried: "Thank God for Moscow...
...Lord Chamberlain's Office, official censors of the British stage, were asked to pass on "an American burlesque strip-tease artiste" last week, decorously replied that they have preliminary jurisdiction only over spoken lines, whereas it is the understanding of the Lord Chamberlain's Office that strip-teasers say nothing. Instead of reassuring the British producer who was about to give the Kingdom its first taste of striptease, this official attitude of pointed refusal to censor caused him to cancel the act and he declared: "I guess it's too hot for England...
...these talks through out April was arranged by the Guardian as a result of the wide-spread enthusiasm accorded the half-hour symposium on a new American business boom which was presented last Monday night. For the new April issue, it was announced that Adolph A. Berle, Jr., Chamberlain of the City of New York, had been induced to write an article on the same subject
...elder statesman! He has always advocated bold measures. He thinks I am a hard case, but he has not yet convinced me that the remedy he brings forward is the correct one." In suave English political life such words are a slap in the face, and friends of Mr. Chamberlain were in mounting fear last week lest he take the same hobnailed line as Prime Minister, an English job in which suavity is requisite...
...seize was the company's officials themselves. These announced that they would attend to as terms." At least 500,000 Britons should now be rushed out as new farmers onto the Kingdom's land as a rearmament measure, according to Mr. Lloyd George last week, but Mr. Chamberlain's plan is to increase food imports, store war reserves of food in immense new British warehouses...