Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge sent through Chancellor Luther of Germany 1) "profound sympathy" to the Government and people of Germany from the Government and people of the U. S., 2) "sincere condolences" to the family of the late President Ebert from Mrs. Coolidge and himself...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, speaking for the Labor Party, referred to the folly of entering into an Air armaments race with France and of spending millions of pounds when the country urgently needed a reduction in taxation. Suggested...
...Supposing France, instead of decreasing, was increasing her Air Fleet. Have we no other weapons for meeting such a menace without expanding our Air Fleet and placing an additional burden on the taxpayers? If France is building more airplanes, at whose expense will she be building them? The Chancellor of the Exchequer has a great weapon in his hand in the indebtedness of France by demanding from France some lessening of her expenditure on armaments...
...Germany won the War, the workers would share in the foreseen prosperity; if Germany lost, the workers would be rid of the Kaiser. Several times he sat in council with the All Highest; and when the War ended and the Kaiser fled, Ebert succeeded Prince Max von Baden as Chancellor. In such a position, he became the logical choice as President of the Republic...
...Chancellor Luther led the counterattack on the Socialist charges. In spite of numerous interruptions and fierce yells, he ably defended the Government's action, declared that the money had been disbursed to thousands of people and not to a few big industrialists. He said that the Government was legally and politically justified in making the grant, which was necessary to prevent the separation of the Ruhr from Germany. He furthermore denied that the Government had only recently offered to obtain the Reichstag's ex post facto sanction for the credits, welcomed a thorough investigation of all payments...