Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opium smuggling,* requested deportation, in the absence of an extradition treaty between the U. S. and China it seemed legally impossible. Vice Consul Kao's suspension however removed some of the complications of the case. He and Mrs. Kao were arrested, and with them Suen Foon, for 17 years Chancellor of the Chinese Consulate, in San Francisco...
...Mellon- Berenger debt agreement, a matter upon which not only France's commercial credit but the future of the Poincare government depended. M. Poincare's step was confident. Since the Chamber adjourned the week before a new weapon, a new persuader, had come into his hands. Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, had announced that if France paid the U. S. the $400,000,000 which nonratification of the debt agreement entailed, Great Britain would insist on the immediate payment of a like sum against her debt bill (see p. 23). Not 400 but 800 millions, therefore...
...five commissioners stared fixedly at the Commoners. In unison they slowly raised their black tricorn hats three times in greeting. Then Lord Chancellor Sankey read the King's speech, a speech which everybody knows is not written by the King at all but by the Prime Minister, a speech supposed to give the policies and promises of the new Government...
...Treasury, that he had increased the salary of Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas, sharp-tongued onetime engine-wiper, from $10,000 to $25,000, because of extra duties as minister in charge of unemployment. Prominent Laborites agitated last week to increase also the salaries of the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, at present barely sufficient to pay the expenses of their official red brick residences on Downing Street...
Lord High Chancellor 50,000 Vice President...