Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vicount Haldane, Scottish jurist, statesman, philosopher and educator, onetime (1912-15) Lord High Chancellor: "Nobody takes the work of this House seriously (wagging a finger at the Marquess of Salisbury* Leader of the House of Lords). It is looked upon as a terrible fatality if we must continue debate after it is time for dinner...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer-Winston Churchill...
...Some of these crises were panics. "We men of the Congress have prevented such crises; we invented a new financial tool. ... In England last week Reginald M'Kenna, Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, great institution, and onetime (1915-16) Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain, marveled at our device; suggested that a modification of it be applied to British banking. . . ." The twelve Federal Reserve Banks,* whose charters the Congress last week voted to extend indefinitely beyond 1934, are banks of discount. Member banks-and all national banks must be members of the Federal Reserve...
...Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer immediately announced, last week, that Britain will accept what amounts to a "hand out" from France. Should the U. S. follow suit a most important precedent would be created, a precedent greatly to the advantage of France, who might come to adopt the policy of "handing out" to her creditors what and when the French Premier may please...
...circumvent this issue, Premier Poincaré suddenly made public, last week, a letter from him to Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer, declaring that the French treasury will pay to Britain ?3,000,000 on Sept. 15 next, and ?3,000,000 more on March 15th, 1928. These are the sums due Britain from France in the unratified Franco-British debt settlement. By simply paying them, without ratification or discussion of the debt settlement, the Premier signified his intention last week, of forcing the debtors of France to take what they can get when they can get it. Pursuing this...