Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual wording of the report, and later became the first Agent General of Reparations. Henry M. Robinson was a member of "Committee No. 2," which decided how much Germany could annually pay, and told "Committee No. 1." This second committee was chairmaned by onetime (1915-1916) Chancellor of the British Exchequer, the Right Honorable Reginald McKenna. Europeans did a major part of the work of both committees. General Dawes was important for his curt, dynamic generalship...
...turning out "half-finished arms and arms parts" which are sold to Russia or shipped to Sweden for completion and thence to Russia, China, etc. It was a pat coincidence that the Foch report was sprung and the British "half-finished arms" scare was popped while Premier Poincare and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer were hobnobbing together in Paris?for these statesmen both oppose the conciliatory attitude toward Germany of Premier Briand and Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...years ago U. S. rubbermen were paying 22¢ a pound for rubber raised at a cost of 18¢ a pound on British rubber plantations. Then the Chancellor of the British Exchequer, Winston Churchill, succeeded in enforcing restrictions on British rubber production. Soon the price of rubber mounted to $1.20 a pound (TIME, Aug. 3, 1925), a rise of almost 500% in 13 months. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover protested, but the U.S. public continued apathetic. Big rubbermen took steps. Harvey Firestone told his son Harvey Jr. to take steps to Liberia...
...Isaacs, manager of both my British and American companies, advised his brother Rufus, then Attorney General, later Lord Reading, the Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India, to buy shares in the American company. Rufus Isaacs bought ?10,000 worth, soon selling ?1,000 to David Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. The affair came to light. Mr. Lloyd-George was bitterly assailed for profiting privately from official information. Parliament, however, acquitted me of all stigma and let the others off as having been merely 'indiscreet.' "In 1914 I was honored with the Grand Cross...
Pink tickets, and green and blue, were sold none the less last week under the new betting tax law, drafted by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill (TIME, May 3). On the first day that the tickets were issued "bookies" at Tattersall's sold them as souvenirs. On the third day Tattersall's bookies struck, refused to accept bets, and since Tattersall's odds are the basis of odds throughout Britain, brought British betting to a temporary standstill...