Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolphe A. Berle, City Chamberlain of New York and member of the original brain trust, has agreed to be the guest speaker at luncheon on Friday. Alan M. Fox, Director of Research of the U. S. Tariff Commission, will sit at the Round Table on Foreign Trade...
Despite all these precautions, somebody must have peeked last week because just before Neville Chamberlain unlocked his budget box in the House of Commons there was a great flurry on London's insurance market. Rates against increases in the income tax jumped from 15% to 45%, against increases in the tax on tea from...
...length it was 3 o'clock, the hour at which the Stock Exchange and the tea houses in Mincing Lane close. Only then was Chancellor Chamberlain ready to release the bad news: The huge cost of Britain's rearmament program (some $1,500,000,000 plus) had swallowed up not only the expected treasury surplus but made it necessary to impose additional taxes. The basic income tax rate was being raised threepence in the pound: for every $5 a Briton receives, he must pay $1.18 instead of $1.13 in income tax. His daily cup of tea will...
With these increased taxes the British budget balanced, with a minuscule surplus left over. But, as has been his fiscal custom, Chancellor Chamberlain had made no provision for paying anything on Britain's debt...
Wisest Vienna gossips were all repeating the same story: Weeks of excited shouting that Adolf Hitler was preparing another armed coup in Austria had finally roused Great Britain. Sir Austen Chamberlain, accompanied by Lord & Lady Astor, was in Vienna officially on a vacation trip. To informed observers, however, it was heavily significant that the Bourbon wedding was the chance of a lifetime to confer with all Austria's leading royalists at once. Sir Austen was supposed to have brought word from London that as a last resort against a Nazi Putsch in Austria, Britain was ready to back...