Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, or "Jix" in popular parlance, has the name of being an able and upright man, but a passionate, implacable foe of "Communism" in its every manifestation. He and Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, have been trying for months if not years to get the Cabinet to break with Russia, against the sober judgment of Premier Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
Laborite Beckett: "I won't withdraw it! I can only say that he [pointing at the Premier] has told lies." (Upon a motion from Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill the House voted to expel Laborite Beckett for five days...
Philip Snowden, onetime Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, sar donic cripple, brilliant economist (TIME, April 25) : "They who have proposed this bill are hypocrites, and they are fools who by rowdy ism have led this debate to such a fatuous conclusion. . . . As for general strikes, they are general nonsense because they
...second reading, a foregone conclusion. Britons, habitually close followers of their legislators, deemed this the most dynamiteful debate since the days of the great General Strike. They saw the lines of class struggle more sharply drawn than ever be fore in the House of Commons. They knew that Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill did not overstate the gravity of the coming struggle when he said, later in the week: "A battle has been joined in which we shall be fighting probably for the remainder of our lives...
Premier Stanley Baldwin and his Chancellor of Exchequer, Winston Churchill, were discovered to have been flayed roundly in a new novel by H. G. Wells, to be published in September, as a contribution to the country's coal-mining turmoil...