Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, who strenuously fought the Admiralty chiefs, did not even offer to resign. Doubtless he remembered that his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, had written finis to his political career in 1886 when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he suddenly made good his threat to resign, ostensibly because he also would not agree to the shipbuilding demands of the Admiralty. And who should be in a better position to learn the lesson which Lord Randolph neglected than his father's biographer, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...that, if he valued his advice, he would see to it that the Admiralty's demands were met. This was all very well. More ships meant more money and Mr. Churchill was holding the purse strings and seemed determined to keep on holding them. How could he induce the Chancellor to accede to the King's wishes. He confided in the Lord President of the Council,* Lord Arthur James Balfour, who suggested, as a compromise, that the money needed for the naval replacements should be furnished by economies in the three fighting services. Mr. Churchill accepted and the Cabinet...
...Beatrice of Spain, the Archbishop of Canterbury, J. H. Thomas (onetime engine driver and Colonial Secretary in the Labor Cabinet), the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Garvin (he is Editor of The Observer, London Sunday newspaper), the Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Winston Churchill, Prince and Princess Obolensky, the Colonial Secretary and Mrs. Amery, the Duke and Duchess of Portland, Sir Edward and Lady Grigg, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty with Lady Beatty, Sir James Barrie, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Patricia Ramsay (former...
...plenary session of the Federation was called to hear the world peace plan written by Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chancellor-Emeritus of Leland Stanford University, which last year won a $25,000 contest conducted by Raphael Herman, Detroit manufacturer (TIME, Dec. 15, INTERNATIONAL). Dr. Jordan's plan would conscript the world's school teachers, represented by twelve cooperating committees, to work under the supervision...
...more venerable professors of Liverpool University last week grunted wrathfully. They were advised by their Chancellor, his Lordship the Earl of Derby, that those among them who had achieved the age of 65 would straightway be requested to retire. The old gentlemen were unanimous in protesting that, if the rule were to stand, pensions more adequate than the present ones should be arranged...