Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lusitania Armed. Britain's present Chancellor of the Exchequer, rubicund and Right Honorable Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, is quoted as stating over his signature...
...Angeles opened a new university, the Los Angeles University of International Relations. It will give courses teaching "a knowledge of languages, history, political economy, international law, and the cultural achievements of nations, in addition to ability and training in diplomatic procedure and commercial practice." Chancellor: Dr. Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, native of Sandwich, Ill., psychologist...
...ambition, the opulence of superb taste-these qualities, blending, twisting, flashing together, gave to his secret spirit the subtle and glittering superficies of a serpent. . . . The music sounds, and the great snake rises, and spreads its hood, and leans and hearkens, swaying in ecstasy; and even so the Lord Chancellor, in the midst of some great sentence, some high intellectual confection, seems to hold his breath in a rich beatitude, fascinated by the deliciousness of sheer style...
Queen Victoria of Sweden who is generally indisposed and keeps to her hotel on the Riviera, received last week an island in the Swiss Lake Constance from her late brother. Prince Max of Baden, onetime Imperial Chancellor to Wilhelm II of Germany, and first to announce his abdication...
...same now threadbare morning coat, striped trousers, soft felt hat. A meek man, President Miklas has been content to stand and wait upon Monsignor Seipel and other leaders of the Clerical party called "Christian Socialist." The fact that he was elected is a tribute to the continued potency of Chancellor Seipel's coalition. But the fact that 91 Socialist electors abstained is of far greater significance...