Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tory liberals were particularly adamant in opposing the appointment of Sir Keith Joseph as shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Keith blundered away his own chance for party leadership by delivering some ill-considered public remarks last fall about what he called the irresponsible breeding habits of Britain's lower classes (TIME, Nov. 11). More than Mrs. Thatcher, Sir Keith is a rigid monetarist and an outspoken critic of the welfare state, a position that the Labor Party has used to picture him as a defender of mass unemployment and social misery...
...critics contend that he lacks both the temperament and the intellect to deal with the heated polemic exchanges that characterize parliamentary debate. Especially in the critical field of economics, Whitelaw would have a hard time standing up to the combined dialectics and expertise of Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey...
...become the Conservatives' principal frontbench spokesman on economic and tax policy. A feisty debater, she has repeatedly discomfited Labor ministers with relentlessly logical and prodigiously well-informed attacks. Her continuous salvos against the Wilson government's proposals for higher tax rates on inherited wealth finally provoked Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey to call her "La Pasionaria of Privilege."* Mrs. Thatcher's rejoinder: "Some Chancellors are macroeconomic, some are fiscal; this one is just plain cheap...
...showed up in Mather House last year: large numbers of students and tutors would gather in the Junior Common Room each night after dinner to watch the network news shows--Walter Cronkite for the early eaters. John Chancellor for the later diners. One day last spring, as the dragnet lightened around the White House, CBS watchers found a small hand of Star Trek viewers occupying the tube they were outvoted at first, but soon their numbers grew to the point that Captain Kirk phasered Walter Cronkite, and another tradition was over...
...sitting in the family quarters of the White House, having just finished an hour of live-television questioning by NBC's John Chancellor and Tom Brokaw. The TV lights were out, the cameras dead, and the men were sipping Scotches. Ford was puffing his pipe and musing about the people who were going after him. Ford was handicapping each of the key men who would oppose him, determined to press his case in a democratic manner. It is such a sane and decent approach that it has already confounded a sizable segment of the opposition...