Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pursued by His Majesty's Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Stanley Baldwin; but last week despatches significantly announced that prizes have now been taken by a sow and a litter, respectively, hailing from the piggeries of two more Cabinet ministers. The sow appertains to His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, rubicund, jovial and a smart vote getter (see col. 3). The prize litter was called by scurrilous correspondents "Jix's Pride." That is to say, the squealing piglets belong to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home...
With all their disadvantages, the old panaceas for more courts, more Supreme Court justices, divisional sittings, have been revived since the Great War. Failing a Lord Chancellor (equivalent to a Ministry of Justice), leadership for reform is unofficial, and the less effective. Constant reform, however, is inevitable: "Law and courts are instruments of adjustment...
People have been saying that the Cabinet is politically on the rocks, and especially that a three-sided split had opened between "Jix," Mr. Baldwin and "Winston." The latter statesman is the Right Honorable Winston Churchill, Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer; and "Jix" is His Majesty's tall, frock-coated, impeccable Secretary of State for Home Affairs...
Mullet's Barbs. The certain German is Hermann Müuller, Chancellor of the German Reich. Last fortnight he gutturally addressed the League audience (TIME, Sept. 17), and thrust three barbs...
...hymn of International Concord. Last week he snapped like an angry Frenchman at enemy Germans: "It is very easy to make fine speeches about peace, and I know I have been reproached by my political enemies for producing words instead of deeds. I do not say that the German Chancellor is one of these reproachers. His speech was very eloquent. Still I could not help feeling that some such reproach underlay...