Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smart set which fore-gathers at his bachelor quarters in York House (a wing of St. James's Palace). Last week this sporting company chuckled as His Royal Highness displayed a cartoon of his own sketching. It showed a plump and ruddy personage, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the act of presenting his Budget for 1928 to the House of Commons (TIME...
Edward of Wales, a deft amateur cartoonist, had caught to the life the sombre frock-coated figure of the Chancellor, characteristically enlivened by the fact that he had thrust his large thumbs into the armholes of his waistcoat and expanded his chest with the confidence of a pouter pigeon. Finally Cartoonist Wales had sketched in heroic proportions the glass containing a refreshing beverage-said by some to be whiskey & soda-without which Chancellor Churchill seldom addresses the House at any length...
When details of His Royal Highness' cartoon leaked out, last week, serious minded Britons recalled with indignation that during Chancellor Churchill's great Budget speech Edward of Wales sat in the gallery, just over the clock, with paper, pencil, and an innocent, virtuous air of taking notes...
Unfortunately for Expert Samuel a back bencher of the Chancellor's own party (Conservative) arose and protested that a reduction should be made in the case of another of the new Churchill taxes, namely that on British-made cigaret lighters. Against this proposal Expert Samuel, determined to defend his influenza-stricken Chief, set his lips and remained firm. He was then indiscreetly approached by Colonial Secretary Colonel Leopold C. M. S. Amery (strong, speechless man of the Cabinet), who whispered in his ear. At the conclusion of this dramatic whispering Expert Samuel reversed his decision of a moment before...
...gallery hurled his hat down upon the floor of the House, exclaiming: "Shut up, you bloody fools!" Oddly enough, this quieted the tumult; but as it subsided crippled Philip Snowden grinned upon Expert Samuel, and remarked: "I do not envy the Financial Secretary when he meets the convalescent Chancellor of the Exchequer...