Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payments ' on its war debt to the U. S. only because President Roosevelt, after receiving each token, has always expressed the personal view that it wiped away the stain of technical default. Last week it was the painful duty of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hawk-nosed Neville Chamberlain, to explain to the House of Commons that President Roosevelt was no longer able to gild tokens with their oldtime gloss. The Johnson Bill, barring flotation in the U. S. of securities of a defaulting nation, had caught the President up short (TIME, April 16). Since he was not going...
...Looking over canny Neville Chamberlain's new budget (see below), observers suddenly discovered an unaccounted ?11,000,000 which may be used for emergency military expenditures without increasing taxation...
Finally the Chancellor of the Exchequer, fit and smiling after a salmon fishing holiday in Scotland (see cut), entered the House to deliver the speech for which all were breathlessly waiting. Because he was bringing the best news Britain has heard since 1931, Neville Chamberlain blew himself to a new brief case of gleaming yellow pigskin to carry the precious budget of 1934. By tradition Britain's budget is always supposed to be contained in a red morocco box on the Speaker's table. Chancellor Chamberlain slipped his few typewritten pages from brief case to the budget...
...shrewd politician, Chancellor Chamberlain puffed his countrymen still farther that same night by comparing the bitter British sacrifices which made the present surplus possible with the loose spending of other nations...
...London's great Gothic Guildhall, Sir Austen Chamberlain rose last week to make a speech defending the League of Nations. 'The joint responsibility of the civilized world is embodied in the League," said he. "But we must first educate public opinion, so the League does not overstrain its strength...