Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, read the mutilated but widespread copy of the Mellon letter he became vexed. In the Balfour note of 1922, Great Britain had stated her policy of collecting from her War allies and Germany only enough of the money they owed her to meet her own debt payments to the U. S. If the Mellon letter was true, Britain was not living up to the Balfour note in collecting money from her War allies when collections from Germany were enough to meet her obligations...
...Lord Chief Justice Hewart caused the world to titter with him by awarding "two and six" to a husband who claimed damages for the loss of his wife. Last week, Baron Hewart set out to better this quip. Said he to an attorney in open court: "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer really desires an additional source of revenue, he might consider issuing a new sort of postage stamp which husbands and wives could stick upon each other and automatically become divorced. . . . The rush to obtain divorces since newspaper publicity was prohibited (TIME, Dec. 20) has been so great that...
...ineptitude" of Sir Auckland Geddes (onetime [ 1920-24 ] British Ambassador at Washington), the "tender bosom" of Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer), the "ignorance, stupidity or arrogance" of the British Commonwealth of Nations-all were last week rebuked by a patriotic U. S. woman-Miss Sophy Stanton, moderately famed granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin McMasters Stanton...
...essential respect from the appeal to the King's conscience out of which our present system of Equity has grown. Even if such a commission should rec commend a pardon it would not over-whelm or discredit the finding of the Court. The commission would, like the Chancellor's Court, fill in a gap which the common law has left open. The creation of a Court of Chancery has not exhausted the power of the Sovereign to do justice in any case in which it is obvious that the existing legal and equitable procedure is inadequate. Nor would the appointment...
...seems inevitable for a road company, but that echo carried throughout the whole of the second performance. John Barclay, that skyscraper of a man, who plays the part of the first lord in "Iolanthe" makes the most of the role of the pirates' apprentice. William Williams, The Lord High Chancellor, is not quite so satisfactory in the part of that General who has fathered so many eligible daughters to catch the pirate eye. His voice is always recitative, and as a consequence not half so sufficient in the second play...