Word: northumbrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ministry, the Board of Trade. To keep the Board from skyrocketing tariffs up at once beyond all reason, Free Trader Mac-Donald (still a Socialist), appointed Free Trader Runciman (Liberal) to be President of the Board of Trade. To keep his job President Runciman, cold, thin-lipped and rigidly Northumbrian, had to appease the pro-tariff majority in the House of Commons by some fairly drastic move...
...Northumbrians are easily drastic. Calmly Northumbrian Runciman brought in a bill (promptly nicknamed "The Abnormal Imports Act") vesting in his Board of Trade supreme power to issue Orders in Council upping Tariffs for the next six months on "manufactured articles and manufactures" (which in the King's English includes such things as gasoline). Unctuously over the good British signatures of President Runciman and two Treasury Lords, G. H. Shakespeare and A. U. M. Hudson, the Board of Trade declared itself "satisfied" last week that all the articles mentioned in the bill "are being imported in abnormal quantities...