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Kingsley Wood

Personal data
Date of birth19 August 1881
Date of death21 September 1943(age 62)
Political partyConservative
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office12 May 1940 - 21 September 1943
Prime ministerWinston Churchill
Succeeded bySir John Anderson
Preceded bySir John Simon

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Sir Howard Kingsley Wood (19 August 1881 - 21 September 1943) was an English Conservative politician. The son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister, he qualified as a solicitor, and successfully specialised in industrial insurance. He became a member of the London County Council and then a Member of Parliament.

Wood served as junior minister to Neville Chamberlain at the Ministry of Health, establishing a close personal and political alliance. His first cabinet post was Postmaster General, in which he transformed the British Post Office from a bureaucracy to a business. As Secretary of State for Air in the months before the Second World War he oversaw a huge increase in the production of warplanes to bring Britain up to parity with Germany. When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, Wood was made Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which post he adopted policies propounded by John Maynard Keynes, changing the role of HM Treasury from custodian of government income and expenditure to steering the entire British economy.

One of Wood's last innovations was the creation of Pay As You Earn, under which income tax is deducted from employees' current pay, rather than being collected retrospectively. This system remains in force in Britain. Wood died suddenly on the day on which the new system was to be announced to Parliament.

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Film: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Starring: Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Jeff Richards, Matt Mattox, Marc Platt, Jacques d'Amboise, Tommy Rall, Russ Tamblyn, Julie Newmar, Ruta Lee, Norma Doggett, Virginia Gibson, Betty Carr, Nancy Kilgas, Ian Wolfe, Marjorie Wood, Russell Simpson and Howard Petrie. Directed by: Stanley Donen. Story written by: Stephen Vincent Benét. Screenplay & Dialogues written by: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley. Distributed by: © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Theatrical Release Date: July 22, 1954 (USA) Niceties by: www.youtube.com Synopsis! "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" is a musical film released in 1954. It was directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Saul Chaplin and Gene de Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The script (by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley) is based on the short story The Sobbin' Women, by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was based in turn on the Ancient Roman legend of The Rape of the Sabine Women. The film was a 1954 Oscar nominee for Best Picture. The film is particularly known for the unusual choreography by Michael Kidd, which makes dance numbers out of such mundane frontier pursuits as chopping wood and (most famously) raising a barn. Plot! The film's story is about a backwoodsman named Adam Pontipee and his new bride Milly, who marries him after knowing him for only a few hours. On returning with him to his cabin in the mountains, Milly is surprised to learn that Adam is one of seven <b>...</b>
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2.35 min. | 5.0 user rating		 The McLean Orchestra proudly announces its 40th Anniversary Season: "A Season of Celebration!" For more information, please visit our website at www.mclean-orchestra.org October 8, 2011 "Fireworks" J. Ernest Green, Conductor December 3 &4, 2011 "Christmas Around the World" A. Scott Wood, Conductor February 11, 2012 "A Night at the Opera" Miriam Burns, Conductor March 24, 2012 "A Song, A Dance, and A Story" J. Ernest Green, Conductor May 12, 2012 "Viva Italia!" Jon Kalbfliesch, Conductor
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Village lands top award in best kept village competition - Stoke & Staffordshire Tweet this news
Stoke & Staffordshire--Foxt, -Kingsley- Holt and Longnor were all highly commended. John Perry, chairman of the Best Kept Village working group, which runs the competition, ... - Date : Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:41:10 GMT+00:00
Cannock Chase sealed off in wartime bomb alert - expressandstar.com Tweet this news
expressandstar.com--It was opened in 1939 by the Secretary of State for Air, Sir -Kingsley Wood-. Its official title was the No 6 School of Technical Training but is better known ... - Date : Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:48:38 GMT+00:00
GLOBAL: Ghana in the vanguard of new logging laws - Reuters AlertNet Tweet this news
Reuters AlertNet---Kingsley- Bekoe, a forestry specialist with Ghana's Civic Response, stressed how important the agreement is to the country: "Almost 60 percent of our timber ... - Date : Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:30:48 GMT+00:00
Title Town: Blazers baseball, softball claim league titles in victories over Glads - Morning Star Tweet this news
Morning Star--The win means Kalkaska will play -Kingsley- Saturday at 10:00 am in Elk Rapids, and the winner will take on either Suttons Bay or Elk Rapids for the district ... - Date : Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:50:03 GMT+00:00
The Stars in the Bright Sky - New Statesman Tweet this news
New Statesman--There is a basic tension here common to all novels: between the author's desire to imprint his stamp onto every sentence -- what the critic James -Wood- calls ... - Date : Mon, 24 May 2010 14:15:15 GMT+00:00
A look at the Republican race for Jackson Co. Commissioner Pos. 3 - KDRV Tweet this news
KDRV--Currently a fire captain at -Kingsley- Field, Breidenthal says transparency is another issue he would address if elected. "Lets bring government to the people ... - Date : Fri, 07 May 2010 02:27:19 GMT+00:00
Dominick and James, the heart of Rome NY - The Rome Observer Tweet this news
The Rome Observer--Last week we showed the -Kingsley- Cancer Hospital on E. Park St. The area was behind where later was built St. Peter's Church. Number 2 firehouse was nearby ... - Date : Thu, 06 May 2010 14:37:33 GMT+00:00
Kingsley's Neighbors: The Pantry general store to become Dandy Mini Mart - Elmira Star-Gazette Tweet this news
Elmira Star-Gazette--In the coming weeks, the -wood--sided general store in the middle of town will become another Dandy Mini Mart. "I can't believe it," said Mary Bradley of ... - Date : Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:39:15 GMT+00:00
Adirondack captures Wood Bat Tournament - WatertownDailyTimes.com Tweet this news
WatertownDailyTimes.com--Houppert combined with Jeremy -Kingsley- and Roggie to one-hit Beaver River. Evan Lyndaker had the lone single, coming in the fourth inning, for the Beavers ... - Date : Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:11:17 GMT+00:00

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
(new constituency)		Member of Parliament for Woolwich West
1918 - 1943		Succeeded by
Francis William Beech
Political offices
Preceded by
Sir William Ormsby-Gore		Postmaster General
1931 - 1935		Succeeded by
George Tryon
Preceded by
Sir Hilton Young		Minister of Health
1935 - 1938		Succeeded by
Walter Elliot
Preceded by
The Viscount Swinton		Secretary of State for Air
1938 - 1940		Succeeded by
Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt
Preceded by
Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt		Lord Privy Seal
1940		Succeeded by
Clement Attlee
Preceded by
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1940 - 1943		Succeeded by
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