Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thin-lipped little Yorkshireman with the cold, drawn face of a stone gargoyle?that was Right Honorable Philip Snowden, Chancellor of His Britannic Majesty's Exchequer, as he bristled and battled last week at The Hague. What he wanted was for twelve nations to reopen the question of how German reparations are to be divided among the creditor powers. That question was closed at Paris (TIME, May 13. et seq.) when the Young plan was drafted by the countries' foremost financiers. In presenting their handiwork to European statesmen. Owen D. Young and his colleagues described it as "an indivisible whole...
Since the cocky little Welshman often goes off halfcocked, his outburst assumed real importance only when wizened Philip Snowden, Labor's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, observed in his most bilious tones, "I cannot trust myself to say what I think of the way we have been treated .... I agree with Mr. Lloyd George's statements. . . ." Although tacitly admitting that circumstances would probably oblige the empire to stomach the Young Plan, Chancellor Snowden militantly added that at The Hague he would make one paramount demand: The new International Bank of Settlement must be located in London...
...understand that a resignation has been extorted from Lord Lloyd?" boomed aggressive Winston Churchill, M. P., lately Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, now among the political "outs." For weeks it has been evident that "Winnie" Churchill hopes to crowd out placid Stanley Baldwin -as leader of the British Conservative party, is trying to do so by a display of his battling prowess in debate. Sweeping the momentarily silent Government Bench with an outraged glance, Mr. Churchill fairly growled his question a second time: "Has a resignation been extorted from Lord Lloyd...
...Henderson said last week that after a "friendly talk" they had agreed that the resignation should be tendered and accepted. "All went well," concluded the Foreign Secretary with a wink which the House did not miss, "all went well until his Lordship had an interview with the former Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Deputies squirmed in embarrassment. Quickly he made use of Chancellor Snowden's statement...