Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Commons, tense responsibility showed itself in increasingly acrimonious debate. Eventually such fighting Conservatives as Chancellor Churchill were denounced by Laborites in terms little short of insult, abuse...
Such is the superbly versatile and completely paradoxical temper of Britain's present Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has "taken on" half a dozen different Cabinet posts within the last decade, as a "handyman" turns from mowing lawns to washing windows...
...Upon Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann fell the responsibility of uttering honeyed words to the hotel tourists en masse. Diffident hotel gentlefolk blushed as Herr Stresemann cried: "You are the world's leaders in your line of business, and, indeed, one may ask wherein Americans are not leaders...
Philip Snowden (Laborite Chancellor in 1924): "The proposed betting tax is immoral and would outrage the sacred feelings of a vast number of Britons. ... It would be almost impossible of collection...
...Retort. Chancellor Churchill defended himself roundly: "Betting is certainly an optional luxury and therefore a fit object for taxation. ... It is estimated that £6,000,000 per year may be derived from this source. . . . The proposed tax does not alter the legality of betting. . . . Credit and racecourse betting are legal, while street betting is illegal?although in practice everyone can bet with impunity. In that sense, there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. . . . The proposed tax is but a recognition of a condition of so-called vice from which the Exchequer has already received...