Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearkened in blank amazement as Laborite Morgan Jones, who had gone to the House distraught from the sick bed of his dying daughter, hurled wildly at British Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain the charge that "By his speeches he encouraged the high-handed policy of Japan in Manchuria...
...presenting material which must be all too familiar to intelligent men. Certainly, those beatific doctrines which have earned Mr. John Dewey the gratitude of every politician have been thoroughly punctured. And if any literate men still remain beneath their spell, there is for the purpose of enlightenment Mr. John Chamberlain's brilliant analysis of the vicious circle which is their fallacy. If we have anything describable as thought, we laugh at the politician who mouths glibly that only through more extensive public education can America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous doctrine, it is a smirking dodge. Just so long...
...scheduled to make that night. "Any nation which deliberately prevents such an agreement [as the armament standstill] being reached," cried Mr. Baldwin, "will have no friend in this civilized world!" To reassure France further, he invoked the Locarno Treaty of 1925, negotiated by Britain's Sir Austen Chamberlain and France's late great Peace Man Aristide Briand to protect the Franco-Belgo-German frontier against aggression. "What Britain has signed she will adhere to!" cried Mr. Baldwin. "She adhered to her signature regarding Belgium. . . . Her signature and her agreements are sacred...
Every bigwig of London finance was there. Rich peers rubbed shoulders with richer bankers, richest merchants. Tall, stooped Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, stalked goutily in, followed by spry, fox-bearded Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England. They had all come to the Mansion House, ornate official home of Lord Mayor Sir Percy Greenaway, to dine with him before he is succeeded Nov. 9 by the Lord Mayor-elect, Alderman Charles Henry Collett (TIME. Oct. 9). Speeches after the guests were full of noble viands and rare wines consisted of direct hits by Chancellor Chamberlain...
Chancellor Chamberlain scored what he called " 'imaginative finance,' although in private transactions it goes by a shorter and less creditable title." He predicted a return by Great Britain to the gold standard at the earliest practicable moment for "there is no monetary standard that can command such confidence as gold...