Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reactionaries like Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill and Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead...
...body, and portals open as the tapping thump of his two rubber-tipped canes approaches. But statesmen do not pity the Right Honorable Philip Snowden. They respect the power and swiftness of his mind, fear the sting of his unpleasant, rasping tongue. He, as Britain's only Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a maiden budget (TIME, May 12, 1924), so clear and masterful that cheers rang from every quarter of the House. Now, since Labor has gone out and Conservatism come in,- Philip Snowden has rasped and torn at every budget presented by his successor as Chancellor...
...TIME, May 11, 1925. At the time Chancellor Churchill had just re-established the pound on a gold standard, and reimposed the McKenna duties on foreign imports, a reversal of Mr. Snowden's policy, felt by him to advantage chiefly the rich...
...galleries were packed with peers; Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England and many another stalwart banker and businessman gave anxious heed to the chancellor's words. The Treasury, he announced, faced a deficit of $182,500,000 on last year's finances; $160,000,000 of this was due to the two strikes. The national expenditures for 1927, Chancellor Churchill estimated at $4,091,950,000; to meet them the country faces new taxes to yield an additional $175,000,000 to $200,000,000. Winebibbers, fag-puffers groaned; increased duties on imported wines, tobacco leaf...
When President Paul von Hindenburg maneuvered the German Monarchists into entering and supporting the new "Big Coalition Cabinet" of Chancellor Wilhelm Marx (TIME, Feb. 7), there stepped up to shoulder the weighty Portfolio of Finance a Roman Catholic Centrist then internationally little known, Dr. Heinrich Koehler. Immediately he became famed by uttering early, late and often the most dire and pessimistic warnings that Germany would not for long be able to meet her scheduled payments under the Dawes Plan. Yet when Dr. Koehler presented his first Budget, not even his inveterate pessimism could becloud several cheerful facts...