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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many Britons who had thought that newly installed Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was barren of humor changed their minds last week. Before the wildly cheering House of Commons in his first speech as the nation's leader, "The Unknown" Chamberlain not for the first time revealed a flair for the sardonic.* Of retired Stanley Baldwin he said: "His love of truth wavered only occasionally, when, with a deceit which soon ceased to deceive anybody he was wont to describe himself as a plain, ordinary man. . . . Many comparisons have been made between Baldwin and other great Prime Ministers...
Almost to a man the Prime Minister's Conservative Party cracked down on the tax. It was described as "monstrous," as "the most disastrous proposal any government has put forward since the War." Only one Government supporter praised the measure-Sir John Simon, who as newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer had to speak well of it. Neville Chamberlain was in the unenviable position of being opposed by the Party of which he had been appointed leader that very...
First item of business was for the new Prime Minister to "advise" His Majesty to confer an earldom and a knighthood in the Order of the Garter on Mr. Baldwin, to create Mrs. Lucy Baldwin a Dame 'Grand Cross of the British Empire. The Earl and his Countess thus reaped the reward of their joint services to the country, could retire among their pigs in Worcestershire with the calm eye, the warm glow that bespeak the performance of hard work well-recompensed...
...Prime Minister Chamberlain next showed the King a list of his new Cabinet and sub-Cabinet down to the most obscure, unpaid assistant Government whip. At 5 p. m. that same day every one of these was summoned to the Palace to take his oath of office in strict order of precedence. A meeting of the Privy Council (His Majesty's advisers, including the whole Cabinet) was then held...
Frequently absent these days from the Senate committee hearings on railroad finance is their prime mover and inquisitor, Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler. Contrary to report, however, the Senator is not losing interest, nor is the investigation likely to peter out. With plenty of money left out of a $150,000 appropriation last March, the committee this week will turn to the affairs of either Pennroad or Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, next on its list after the old Van Sweringen network...