Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "one would have to have the hide of a rhinoceros not to be affected by the criticism." But he defended his apprenticeship for the job. "After all, for five years it was my job to explain foreign policy to the Commonwealth." Officials used to his rather dour predecessor, Selwyn Lloyd, were charmed by Home's wit and informality (Home rides up front in official cars, putting the Scotland Yard man in the back). His subordinates were also surprised at his grasp of the issues...
...Rolls-Royces go hand in hand. Last week, in a letter sent to every Member of Parliament, Rolls-Royce Chairman Lord Kindersley, 62, solemnly warned against a proposal that "may eventually mean the end of the Rolls-Royce car." In his budget message last month, Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd proposed to limit to ?2,000 ($5,600) per car the amount that British firms can charge off on their income tax for executive limousines. Of the 1,200 Rollses and Bentleys (the same car with a different grille) sold in Britain each year, 75% are bought by corporations...
Britain's rich and poor, taxpayers alike, waited nervously last week, hoping for the best, fearing the worst. Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd was headed for the House of Commons to deliver his first budget speech. For weeks the government had been grumbling about the growing inflation. That seemed to suggest only one thing: another round of income tax increases...
...Cornell Historian Clinton Rossiter, now serving as Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Selwyn College, Cambridge University, is author of Conservatism in America and The American Presidency...
...short work weeks; Standard-Triumph had to dismiss 1,700 of its 8,000 workers; British Ford slashed overtime for 30,000. Pleas to the government to spur domestic sales by easing tight credit restrictions have been turned down by Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, who ruled that any encouragement of domestic sales would reduce the incentives to boost exports, which the British economy so desperately needs to maintain a favorable balance of trade...