Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...income tax, wants all earned incomes over ?20,000 to be taxexempt. Says he (after having been enormously overpaid for Pygmalion) : "I lately received a further windfall of ?29,000 on account of my film rights. The financial result was that I had to pay ?50,000 to the Chancellor of the Exchequer within two years. And the result of that catastrophe is that I am now using my copyrights not to have my plays filmed and thereby give employment and enjoyment to my fellow citizens, but to forbid and suppress them in order to reduce my income...
...William Mulock, 101, eldest of Canada's elder statesmen; in Toronto. In 1906, he dissuaded a young Harvard graduate from a teaching career, thus introduced William Lyon Mackenzie King to Canadian politics. Sir William spent 23 years in politics, 31 years on the Ontario bench, 20 years as Chancellor of the University of Toronto...
...latest British boomlet was touched off by shipping shares. It was bolstered by Prime Minister Churchill's promise fortnight ago that a plan for postwar steel houses would mean heavy orders for the steel industry. And then it soared after the reluctant admission of Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the cost of living must be allowed to rise five points. Thus, by plunking cash into the market, Britons could hedge against wartime inflation and bet on postwar prosperity. Added inducements: no double tax on dividends, as in the U.S., no capital-gains tax. Underlying all this...
...Chancellor Shea did not know when Father Orlemanski might reappear. He said: "It is usually customary to wait until a matter like this has quieted down and then settle it privately." In the Catholic Church, the Soviet Gov ernment had at last run into an opponent whose political astuteness matched...
...same setting and in the same tones, the same man read the Treasury's annual, dust-dry budget message. He coldly, competently answered the questions of the House, as coldly departed when the job was done. The Members expected no more, and no less, of Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Britain's No. 1 example of that peculiarly British institution, the civil servant...