Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill (TIME, May 11) to put Britain's currency back on a gold basis was "read a third time and passed without division"-in short, passed without a fight. An amendment, proposed by ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, rejecting the bill on the ground that it was unduly precipitant, was defeated...
...concomitant debates were marked by a bitter clash between Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill and Mr. Snowden. Mr. Churchill declared that there was too much fuss being made about the McKenna duties (TIME, May 11), and that all he sought to do was to revert to the status quo ante and to brand Mr. Snowden's repeal of those duties (TIME, May 12, 1924) as a purely partisan action. Mr. Snowden retorted: "I can well understand that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is incapable of understanding that any person can be moved by honest political convictions." (Torrents...
...entry of General feldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg, President-elect, into the capital. The Monarchists prepared to give him a royal welcome, not omitting renditions of Fredericus Rev, a martial Monarchial anthem (later forbidden). Republicans boycotted the proceeding. Communists threatened to stage counterdemonstrations (later forbidden). Finally, der Tag arrived. Chancellor Hans Luther, with his 10-year-old daughter, motored from the Chancellery to the railway station. Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Monarchists, lined the streets. All Berlin, or so it seemed, was draped in the old Imperial colors-red, white and black. . . . A train steamed into the station. President-elect...
...Chancellor Churchill's move for immediate gold resumption (TIME, May 11, BUSINESS, COMMONWEALTH) was criticized last week by enemies in Parliament on the grounds that it would flood Britain with gold, and that it would shackle Britain to the U. S. in the event of heavy gold exports. After pointing out the contradictory nature of these criticisms, Mr. Churchill has declared that gold resumption shackled England only to present realities-a pointed and adequate retort. Already over ?1,000,000 in gold has been exported from England since assumption of the gold standard, with more to follow...
...Chancellor's announcement, sterling shot up from $4.82? to $4.84, which is not far enough from the gold par of $4.8665 to call for any great British export of the yellow metal...