Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Lord Plumer's prescription went unheeded, and his resignation was accepted by the King-Emperor, who appointed to succeed him another old soldier, but less peppery, Lt.-Col. Sir John Robert Chancellor, 58, Scotch, a veteran of the Indian and World Wars, and, since 1923, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, Africa...
...When the War broke out Herbert Henry Asquith was British Prime Minister; David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...three: Home Secretary Sir William "Jix" Joynson-Hicks; Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead; and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill...
After this abstruse discourse the air was cleared by famed Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, ruddy as a round full moon, matter of fact as the taxes he imposes. Crisply Mr. Churchill told the M. P.s that they, as a body of laymen, should not set themselves up as ecclesiastical arbiters, but should pass the Book in deference to the expert endorsement already accorded it by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and a large majority of the Bishops of the Church of England...
...bestowing this degree on Mr. Hughes, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown said: "In your youthful spirit and the direct sincerity of your diplomacy you are another Lindbergh with feet on the ground." *Not to be confused with that other Oklahoma oilman, E. W. Marland, who put up the money for a huge statue of The Pioneer Woman (TIME...