Word: chamberlaine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Received with complete apathy an announcement by beak-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain that, despite the boasted British Treasury surplus, His Majesty's Government chose to welsh on their War-debt payment due the U. S. last week.* Snorted Liberal David Lloyd George: "I should have thought it was not altogether wise to boast to your creditor how much better off you are than he when you have not paid his bill...
Died, Eleanor, Viscountess Sandhurst, 73, last surviving child of Poet Matthew Arnold (Sohrab & Rustum), widow of the onetime (1912-21) Lord Chamberlain of England; in London...
Professor Chamberlain, also, will be assisted by Dr. Wallace in Economics 4c, which will discuss the problems of the light, gas, water, bus, railroad, and air interests. Continuing the policy of considering current events, the course will discuss the proposed regulations of motor transportation and the work of the Federal Railroad Coordinator with the suggested changes proposed in the reports of Mr. Eastman. The possibilities of public ownership will also enter the discussion as a possible alternative...
...present British administration is one of the most conservative of recent years. Stanley Baldwin and Noville Chamberlain dominate Parliament, backed by a docile majority. Those men could easily place a member of their own party in the premier's office. Evidently, however, they feel that Mr. MacDonald lends a non-partisan aura to their rule without, interfering in any way with its program. Why he accepts this uninspired position is not so easily arrived at. Probably in 1929 he felt that a national emergency made compromise a patriotic duty. Since then the subtle influences of Mayfair and old age have...
Twenty months ago Lord Linlithgow assumed chairmanship of Parliament's Joint Select India Committee: 16 members of the House of Lords, including a onetime Viceroy (the Marquess of Reading), and the Archbishop of Canterbury; and 16 members of the House of Commons, including Sir Austen Chamberlain and Laborite Miss Mary Pickford, who has since died. Their duty was to tie up the loose ends left by seven years of plodding British efforts to find for India a more liberal but not too liberal status...