Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Following the well-defined tendency to lay the blame for all Britain's economic ailments at the door of the Government's gold standard policy, a determined attack on Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill's financial policy was launched by Laborite Lees-Smith, an economist. The attack followed the usual technical theme of stating that the Chancellor was conserving the gold standard by an embargo on foreign and colonial loans, which, of course, means that Britain cannot, under existent conditions, stimulate trade without granting credits in the shape of loans. This accusation of a false policy...
Gladstone, is the subject of the above discourse, but created a precedent of which Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill was not slow to take advantage...
Tariff reform and tax reform went hand in hand. Said Chancellor Luther...
...replied: "No, I cannot say I am satisfied with conditions, and I hope an improvement will come before long." ¶ By a majority of 127 votes, the House defeated a Labor motion to reduce the naval replacement program, outlined a fortnight ago by Premier Baldwin (TIME, Aug. 3). Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, who originally was against the program, was forced to defend the Government's naval policy, and a bad time he had. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald (Labor) reproached him for "arming when no foe threatened and thereby prejudicing the prospects of world peace...
...Premier George followed the same line of argument, taunted the Chancellor for his "surrender of the public purse to footpad Admirals bent on holding up the Government and Parliament...