Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generation the scintillant acumen of Lord Birkenhead has won him the name of lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies. While Lord High Chancellor of Britain (1919-22) he was revealed as a sphynx possessed of corroding scorn and a face so immobile as to suggest paralysis. To round out the quatrefoil of his quadruped characteristics, the Earl of Birkenhead habitually walks with a sodden heavy stride, his hands held dangling before his chest like the paws of a performing bear. But when he rises in public debate or sits down to a private tete-a-tete...
Churchill. The approach of the crisis synchronized with the great annual politico-business event of the British Government?the presentation of the budget to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Winston Churchill stepped up manfully to meet his great occasion...
...those countries ought to pay, we are in fact subsidizing out of the pockets of the British the severe competition of France and Italy against British goods. We are paying America ?34,000,000 a year and this will rise to ?38,000,000 a year. The amount the Chancellor of the Exchequer has to find for payment of the American debt represents ninepence in the pound on the income tax, and will do so for the next 60 years...
...Churchill: "Many of my Right Honorable friend's accusations are such that I agree with them as an individual, but must disagree with them as Chancellor of the Exchequer [Laughter...
Died. Konstantin Fehrenbach, 74, fifth Chancellor of the German Reich, President of the Reichstag under the imperial regime, a statesman of the first rank in both imperial and republican affairs; at Berlin, of pneumonia...