Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faced the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed mad clear through. His wrath was due to an attempt by members of his own party (Conservative) to block a measure which, if passed, would effect important savings to the Treasury?savings perhaps sufficient to enable Mr. Churchill to face the voters at the forthcoming election with his budget not too precariously balanced. As his wishes were flouted by his own colleagues the Chancellor, seated grimly on the Treasury Bench, grew first pink and then red with rage, was seen to clench and unclench several times his large...
...dared Conservatives fail to fall in behind the Chancellor? The fact of their daring proved once more how muddlesome and namby-pamby is the leadership of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Last week the Party was definitely split and undetermined on the issue presented by Mr. Churchill's money bill: namely, should the Government pay in whole or in part the allowed claims of loyal Irish subjects of His Majesty who had suffered destruction of their property during the Sinn Fein insurrections (1916-20). Should a Loyalist whose mansion had been burned down by mobsmen get a whole new house...
Many a famed U. S. educator has sat in the office which Dr. Cooper now occupies. The first was Henry Barnard whose fame in his native Connecticut equals that of Horace Mann in Massachusetts. Other onetime Education Commissioners are Dr. Elmer Brown, Chancellor of New York University; Dr. Philander Priestly Claxton, now Superintendent of Schools in Tulsa, Okla...
...seven British power companies which serve more than 1,000,000 Britishers in 95 English and Scotch communities. Shrewd, diplomatic, the U. S. operators secured the Earl of Birkenhead as the head of their new British interests. Since the Earl of Birkenhead was recently (1919-22) Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for India, his appointment was calculated to assuage British ill-feeling against U. S. economic invasion...
They recalled that the late, rich Quintin Hogg greatly interested himself in welfare work among poor children, as did his prospective bride. Therefore, in words once uttered by the Present Lord High Chancellor: "We have a family legend that when father and mother went on their honeymoon they took with them 30 ragged boys from London. Mother spent most of her time fielding point while the boys were learning to play cricket...