Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, bland Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon drew gasps from startled M. P.s by disclosing that as much as 150,000 tons of wheat have been bought by the Government in a single day, plus correspondingly gigantic purchases of sugar and whale oil. (The British lower classes can subsist indefinitely on bread and margarine-in which whale oil is a key ingredient.) What Sir John was really doing, as he "opened" the Budget last week, was unlocking the State secret that His Majesty's Government have craftily completed the first step necessary to prepare the Empire against...
Soak Everybody! Because the rich have been so drastically soaked for years in the United Kingdom (where many taxes are clearly confiscatory), Sir John Simon in effect made the keynote of his new Budget "Soak everybody...
...world headlines Sir John Simon figured last week as the man who had just raised the basic British income tax rate to 27½%-but this was more astonishing to less heavily taxed foreigners than to Britons, for they have been paying 25% anyhow. Excited about 27½%, the New York Post put through a transatlantic telephone call, asked Fleet Street reporters to coax in a few Lodoners at random off the street to be questioned by New York. A van driver (truck driver), George Merrick, said: I think it is a very fair tax for the working...
...Pollyannas, last week they did show widespread signs of realizing that the United Kingdom is in more or less of a jam, has no alternative except to buy her way out by rearmament and piling up of food supplies under such shrewd, secretive bargain hunters as Sir John Simon and Neville Chamberlain...
CRADLED IN MURDER-Rudd Fleming -Simon & Schuster...