Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, straight and spry when he made his budget speech fortnight ago, Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of the British Exchequer was sorely crippled by a sudden attack of lumbago last week. Slowly, painfully he limped into the Treasury for an important conference with Sir George Ernest May. the actuary who is chairman of Great Britain's important Import Duties Advisory Committee of three...
Stone by stone Great Britain's new and hastily erected tariff ramparts (TIME, Nov. 30, et seq.) have been explored by these three masons of finance. Their recommendations, which Chancellor Chamberlain promptly adopted last week by issuing a Treasury decree effective April 26 were broadly two: 1) The emergency "antidumping" tariff' of 50% on luxury and semi-luxury manufactures, thrown up last autumn in the manner of hasty pioneers who hear war whoops not far off, is now completely torn down. 2) The low but massive 10% General Tariff on manufactures built last February becomes a 20% wall...
...tracks of a New York subway; Most Rev, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Cannes where he is being treated by King's Physician Lord Dawson of Penn ; Charles Spencer Chaplin, in Singapore, of dengue fever; Britain's Chancellor of the Ex chequer Neville Chamberlain, of gout following lumbago ; Representative William Robert Wood, of Indiana, 71-year-old chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee, critically exhausted from overwork on the House Appropriations Committee ; Henry Lewis Stimson, confined in his rented Swiss villa near Geneva with laryngitis...
...Upstairs Common Room for the Yale team, and members of the Freshman Debating Council. Dr. W. S. Howell, Instructor in Public Speaking, will preside at the debate and the judges will be Professor Newell Maynard, professor of Public Speaking at Tufts College, Dr. Horace Howe, and Carey Chamberlain...
Warm, generous, jellylike people are repugnant to cold, precise Chancellor Chamberlain. He "indicated" to correspondents what he called a "tentative refusal" of Lady Houston's proffered gift. It appeared that what the impulsive Dame had actually done was to withold her due income tax payment of $151,200, offering instead her gift of $756,000. Most irregular. Not cricket...