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...thump of his two rubber-tipped canes approaches. But statesmen do not pity the Right Honorable Philip Snowden. They respect the power and swiftness of his mind, fear the sting of his unpleasant, rasping tongue. He, as Britain's only Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a maiden budget (TIME, May 12, 1924), so clear and masterful that cheers rang from every quarter of the House. Now, since Labor has gone out and Conservatism come in,- Philip Snowden has rasped and torn at every budget presented by his successor as Chancellor of the Exchequer, big, humorous, dynamic Winston...
...TIME, May 3, 1926. This was the famed "coal budget," the alleged "profligacy" of which consisted in expending ?20,000,000 ($97,200,000) on a subsidy to the coal industry which delayed but did not prevent .the general strike and the coal strike...
...Presumably referring to a clause in the present Churchill budget making the landlords' property tax payable in yearly instead of half-yearly installments, thus juggling an extra half year's installment into this year's revenues...
...Catholic Centrist then internationally little known, Dr. Heinrich Koehler. Immediately he became famed by uttering early, late and often the most dire and pessimistic warnings that Germany would not for long be able to meet her scheduled payments under the Dawes Plan. Yet when Dr. Koehler presented his first Budget, not even his inveterate pessimism could becloud several cheerful facts...
Vote. Although Finance Minister Koehler presented his budget to the Reichstag, with his most funereal compliments and observations, the Deputies passed it 238 to 166-only the Communists, Socialists and a few so-called Economic Unionists dissenting...