Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour. She made notes of their crude, fantastic speech, little suspecting that age and custom would lend much of it such a patina that such a horrendous phrase as "go the whole hog" would be used, in 1949, by a descendant of the Duke of Marlborough, addressing the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons...
...Austrians went to the polls this week, for the first time since 1945, to elect a Parliament. The election kept in power the anti-Communist coalition of Chancellor Leopold Figl's Christian-Democratic People's Party and the Socialists. The People's Party polled about 45% of the votes, captured 77 parliamentary seats (as against 85 in 1945). The Socialists got 67 seats (they had 76 before). The new League of Independent Voters, which is openly pro-Nazi, gained; it got an ominous 12% of the popular vote and 16 seats. The Communists, still Austria...
...Washington, St. Louis, Cincinnati and a dozen other cities, buses and streetcars have been wired for sound. (Moaned a Washington bus rider: "Wasn't it Hitler who tried to drive the Austrian chancellor crazy by forcing him to listen to the radio?") In many places, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh and southern New England, grocery stores were blaring music and commercials. (Stanley Joseloff, president of Storecast Corp. of America, said happily: "It's radio plus. We get a 100% listening audience at the point of sale because everyone who's there has to hear...
Squirrel & Cage. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps had opened for the government with an able but unexciting defense of his devaluation of the pound. When his turn to speak came, Winston Churchill peered owlishly over his spectacles and said that the Labor government's policy and makeshift expedients had brought the nation close to bankruptcy. A Laborite heckled: "Sell your horse!" Churchill shot back: "I could sell him* for a great deal more than I paid for him, but I am trying to rise above the profit motive...
Churchill made cruel fun of Cripps for declaring so frequently that he would never devalue, then being forced into the horrid step "higgledy-piggledy." He said the Chancellor had "[turned] completely round like a squirrel in his cage." Churchill twirled his stubby forefinger to indicate the. squirrel's acrobatics, as the packed benches rocked with laughter...