Word: rt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure happening, ignored by headline writers 22 months ago, kicked open the throttle of a roaring train of events that has carried Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain to first political rank in Great Britain and marked him as Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's probable successor. Last week tall, husky-voiced, smoldering-eyed Chancellor Chamberlain of Britain's Exchequer read to a hushed House of Commons the Empire's first sky-high-tariff budget. That speech was sufficiently historic. The obscure happening 22 months ago was Mr. Chamberlain's discreet success in getting himself appointed chairman of the Conservative Party...
...machine, reorganized, conciliated within itself and tuned up by Neville Chamberlain which all over England turned the Labor enemy's defeat into a rout. That rout was the reason why the 1932-33 Budget of His Majesty's Exchequer was presented to the House of Commons last week by Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor...
...week resolved to play a role not smaller than that which his brother Austen attempted at Locarno. Today the "Locarno Spirit" of European goodwill is dead, killed by Depression and cremated by the flames of nationalism. Out of these flames (and high tariffs are a fiery essence of nationalism) Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain hopes to extract with honor not only the Empire but the world. Toward the U. S. cold Neville is studiously friendly, never tires of assuring British doubters that U. S. currency is safe & sound on gold and will remain there...
Belfast bowed stiffly last week to Dublin. The Rt. Hon. Viscount Craigavon, Premier of Northern Ireland, revoked the decree which has barred from Northern Ireland that notorious person Eamon de Valera...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, chose to inform the nation last week that it is legal to sell gold pound pieces (called "sovereigns" and worth 20 gold shillings) for 27 paper shillings or whatever else one can get for them. Instantly "London's Gold Rush" began. Millions of British gold pieces came out of hiding and millions of Britons began to take their "paper profits...