Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years of suffering from a spinal affliction have warped him physically, reduced him to hobbling upon two canes, given his drawn face its ascetic pallor. If he did not lash out savagely at his enemies they might treat him with a pitying consideration which he could not endure. As Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1924 Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, he won a sort of right to criticize the budgets of succeeding Chancellors, to sear and slash. He exercised that right last week most rashly when he rose to flay Chancellor Winston Churchill's fifth...
Probably not even Chancellor Churchill, hunched over and intent upon the pixie, realized where all this was leading. Rather perfunctorily he interjected that his settlements had been based upon the Balfour Note...
...think it is a very dangerous thing for Mr. Snowden to utter such words i "boomed the Chancellor. "They might endanger the payments which are even now being made [to Britain by France and Italy] and on which we were counting this year...
...turtle for silence, enormously shrewd, Lawyer Graustein was given charge of International Paper five years ago. Consolidations, trade agreements, and his activities on the directorates of other Chace interests, have kept hard-driving Mr. Graustein busy day and night, but now the industrial empire of which he is chancellor is approaching romantic vastitude. Grausteinia is becoming Graustark.* In the imperial coffers lies a treasure to which the felicitous French have given a suitable name. Besides paper, Graustein of Graustark now deals chiefly in White Gold - water power...
...France changed hands to and fro; a war of flags on the map, of picket lines, of cavalry screens advancing or receding by hundreds of miles without solid cause or durable consequence; a war with little valour and no mercy." The Significance. In the preface to his ebullient history Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill insists that "all the opinions expressed are purely personal and commit no one but myself." Far from expecting tact in the pronouncements of his public men, the Englishman relishes spirited aspersions hurled from high office. Especially does he expect "Winnie" Churchill, proverbial playboy - poohbah of British...