Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold dollar" bonds, never dreaming that under the next Democratic President of the U. S., all "gold clauses" in U. S. securities would be invalidated. Last week $136,333,500 of this British issue was still outstanding and stooped, hawk-nosed Chancellor of the British Exchequer Neville Chamberlain had a smart idea...
That night he was supported by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain who made a long speech to the House of Commons urging the Conference to go on & on. "Let us keep contact with all other countries pleaded gaunt, earnest Mr. Chamberlain. "Let us not despair, even now, of achieving results of solid, practical value from the Conference...
Socialite, luxury-loving Franz von Papen is no Nazi. In the Hitler Cabinet he keeps his Vice Chancellorship (a decorative sinecure) chiefly because he is a Papal Chamberlain and because Germany's new Nazi masters suppose him to be an ''intimate friend" of His Holiness Pope Pius XI. All last week Herr von Papen was enjoying himself in Rome. He loves nothing quite so much as supping in state at a Cardinal's Palace with twinkling candles on the table and viands of the best. Every day Vegetarian Hitler called up to ask how the negotiations...
...next door to the residence of the Prime Minister in No. 10 Downing St., lives (so every upper class Englishman has been brought up to believe) the Chancellor of the Exchequer-but this rule has ceased to hold. Gaunt, dynamic Chancellor Neville Chamberlain has every right to live in No. 11 and is rated the real head of the ruling Conservative Party, but he joins in showing every deference to the party's titular Leader, beloved and bumbling Stanley Baldwin who (conscious of his shortcomings as a statesman) was always trying to resign during his two terms as Prime...
...busy with World Conference matters last week to take part in the Conservative debate. Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain hewed close to the line of tight, efficient Conservative Party management, left the Baldwins happy in No. 11 while he made Empire policy at his office in the Treasury and in his snug, sumptuous home at No. 37 Eaton Square...