Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion of His Majesty's Government. Meanwhile, British Ambassador to Mexico Owen St. Clair O'Malley was sent packing with two calculated slaps-in-the-face from the Government of President Cárdenas: 1) He was reminded by the Mexican Foreign Office that the United Kingdom has welshed on her War Debt. Wrote Foreign Minister General Eduardo Hay: "The government of Your Excellency lacks all right to analyze the domestic situation of Mexico. . . . Even powerful states having at their command abundant resources cannot pride themselves on being up to date in the payment of all their monetary...
Soak Everybody! Because the rich have been so drastically soaked for years in the United Kingdom (where many taxes are clearly confiscatory), Sir John Simon in effect made the keynote of his new Budget "Soak everybody...
Everybody in the Kingdom drinks tea, has been paying for the cheapest grade about eightpence per pound plus sixpence tax. Sir John added another tuppence (4?), drew from all quarters of the House pained cries of "Oh!" and "Shame...
Although the King's subjects are not Pollyannas, last week they did show widespread signs of realizing that the United Kingdom is in more or less of a jam, has no alternative except to buy her way out by rearmament and piling up of food supplies under such shrewd, secretive bargain hunters as Sir John Simon and Neville Chamberlain...
...United Kingdom...