Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impatiently awaited budget speech -the speech on which prophets have declared that Britain's general elections would turn-was delivered to a packed and eager House of Commons, last week, by the empire's most amazing statesman, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Journalism, dare-devil soldiering, music, history-book-scrivening,* politics, dabbing with oil paints - these are a few of the careers of Winston, who entered the War as Chief of the British Admiralty, switched to Secretary of War and later Air, emerged from the conflict as Colonial Secretary, became Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Because no general tax-cut is possible, the Chancellor thus made the best of a bad job by appealing over thinking British heads to the stomachs and strongly developed betting appetite of the mob. In an effort to provide, also, food for thought, he harked to the day when he put sterling back on gold. "Because of that policy," he declared, "there has been a decline of 18 points (%) in the cost of living . ... while wages are almost at the 1924 level. . . . This means an increase in the purchasing power of our wages equivalent to the remission...
Only once and half-heartedly did the Chancellor take up the unanswerable Liberal and Labor charge that the Conservative Government has done little or nothing to solve the unemployment problem. Cried Mr. Churchill: "It is the deliberate view of this Government that unemployment can be reduced normally by a revival of the basic industries. It has been urged that the Government should seek an opportunity for utilizing the national credit for stimulating general trade, and particularly in connection with assisting toward rationalization. Such transactions are far better dealt with in the sphere of regular business than by direct intervention...
...former, combinations began. He kept in the background. Seldom has his name appeared in print except, during the 90's, in the sport news. He used to be an able tennis racqueteer. His background is Quaker, and old New English. His father, Arnold Buffum Chace, is chancellor of Brown University. The Chace spokesman, figurehead and factotum...
Last week London's Lord Mayor Sir Kynaston Studd dined exceedingly well. Among his guests were Viscount Byng of Vimy and Thorpe-le-Soken, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, Viscount Lascelles, Lord Chancellor Baron Hailsham. Also present was Dr. Montague Rhodes James, Provost of Eton, author of many a learned treatise and many a tingling ghost story. All the guests were Eton graduates. Provost James offered the famed toast, Floreat Etonia. Then, pridefully eyeing the company, he added: "Gentlemen, the purpose of Eton is to produce old Etonians...