Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard Burden Haldane, first Viscount of Cloan, had died in 1913, a grateful Britain would have remembered him as a capable War Minister intent on army reorganization, as Lord High Chancellor and a Parliamentarian for 26 years...
...Oberhof, a Thuringian spa, where he has been convalescing from an almost fatal kidney attack (TIME, May 28). Telegrams, cables and flowers poured in, for Dr. Stresemann is the outstanding and most potent German statesman. He has held the Foreign Ministry while nine Cabinets have fallen. Previously, as Chancellor of the German Reich (1923), he wangled the French out of the Ruhr (which they had seized), and laid the German side of the foundations for the Dawes Plan. He was one of the Locarno Peace Pact signatories (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925); and he got Germany into the League (TIME, Sept...
Died. Frederick William Louis Leopold Augustus, 71, onetime (1907-18) Grand Duke of Baden, brother of Queen Victoria of Sweden, uncle of the German Chancellor (Prince Max of Baden) who arranged the terms of the armistice, last of a line of sovereigns nine centuries old; of heart disease; at Badenweiler, Germany...
...Jointly harkened to a Speech from the Throne, proroguing Parliament to Nov. 6. The Speech was sonorously read by Baron Hogg of Hailsham, rotund Lord High Chancellor, because His Majesty, a keen yachtsman, was en route to Cowes for the famed annual Regatta...
Wherefore. "Chemistry is a philosophy working in man's mind, leading him to search for fundamental truth and in the end to power in world .affairs. Science knows no frontiers."-Sir James C. Irvine, acting chancellor of St. Andrews University, Scotland...