Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being charged that many of the present productions were inferior, unpatriotic, psychologically unhealthy. The memorandum was signed by Lords Burnham, Carson, Dawson, Newton, Riddell; Robert Bridges, poet; Thomas Hardy, novelist; J. R. Clynes, Sir Sidney Lee, Gordon Selfridge, department store man; Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown accepted his munificence " in the spirit in which it was offered...
Members of Parliament entered their respective Houses at Westminster. In the House of Lords, the Lord High Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack. In the House of Commons, the Speaker took the chair. The summer session began...
...proposal to reduce the tariff for British-grown sugar was passed, 190 to 98. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill claimed that it was absolutely necessary to protect the West Indian and other sugar industries or see them go bankrupt...
That there is a slight physical similarity between President von Hindenburg and Prince Bismarck seems undisputed. But that there is any intellectual similarity seems equally impossible to entertain. Nevertheless, Berliners are never tired of comparing their President to the Iron Chancellor. Recently, the President's sheep dog, Rolf, took up his residence at the Presidential Palace in the Wilhelmstrasse. Berliners were reminded that Bismarck's great Dane, Tyras, once was a canine resident in the Chancellery on the same street...