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1 day ago · As Chancellor, Lloyd George presented his "People's Budget" on 29 April 1909, calling it a war budget to eliminate poverty. With Churchill as his closest ally, Lloyd George proposed unprecedented taxes on the rich to fund the Liberal welfare programmes. The budget was vetoed by the Conservative peers who dominated the House of Lords.
19 hours ago · The King was annoyed that his efforts to urge passage of the budget had become public knowledge and had forbidden Knollys, who was an active Liberal peer, from voting for the budget, although Knollys had suggested that this would be a suitable gesture to indicate royal desire to see the budget pass. In December 1909, a proposal to create peers ...
- 22 January 1901 – 6 May 1910
- Queen Victoria
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3 days ago · In the 1909 'People's Budget' the Government sought increases in all taxes partly in order to fund the old age pensions, but after months of wrangling the Lords threw the budget out and thereby was instumental in forcing a General Election early in 1910.
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1 day ago · The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt started on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley, and ended on March 4, 1909. Roosevelt had been the vice president for only 194 days when he succeeded to the presidency.
3 days ago · The Pennsylvania Constitution, prefaced by a Preamble and Declaration of Rights, was framed by a specially elected convention that met from mid-July to the end of September 1776. Pennsylvania followed the Virginia model of declaring a bill of rights prior to articulating the kind of republican government that will be established.
3 days ago · The proposal, which Webber described in his letter as "a people first budget," includes $4.1 million for a 3% raise for all city employees, $8 million to implement recommendations from a recent ...
