Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Budget Threatened. With the issue between Laborites and Conservatives so sharply drawn, it was only natural that Chancellor Churchchill's new budget (TIME, May 3) should be mercilessly attacked in the Commons last week. Since Mr. Churchill himself admitted that his budget would continue to balance only if "industrial warfare" could be avoided, the whole Conservative structure of British state finance, which restored and has kept the pound at par for exactly a year, teetered ever so slightly as the minutes ticked...
...roused the ire of Britons last week, chiefly because it will tend to raise the price of England's most popular pasteboard commodity: a betting ticket on the Derby, Grand National or other "turf classic." Within the House of Commons, notables waxed wrathful at daring, chubby "Winnie" Churchill, Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer...
Lady Astor: "Betting is a national evil. . . but the proposed tax is a political blunder, and shows the lack of political judgment which has marked the present Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Encouraging Signs. The Chancellor called the attention of the Commons to the fact that trade was improving, that the nation was richer than a year ago, and that in six years the British floating debt had been cut in half, reduced...
...Ames has simplified his task by employing players that are for the most part widely unknown. All of them are good and some of them are extraordinary. Ernest Lawford, the only one of whom most people have heard, is conspicuously excellent as the susceptible Lord Chancellor with the pleasant occupation?...