Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clearly the under dogs were yapping at "Them." Replied Top Dog Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, His Majesty's Attorney General, sternly: "The Lord High Chancellor [Baron Hogg of Hailsham] himself is satisfied that Lord Burghley takes an active interest in public life and is well fitted to hold the office. . . . I consulted His Lordship before making the appointment. . . . It was his opinion that a young man of standing should receive an opportunity in early life to gain experience in public affairs...
...fairly strutted to the residence of Provincial Governor Stumpf. There, like a sparrow chirping for an eagle, he voiced the fairly temperate demands of II Duce: 1) Austria to supply a new flag; 2) Austrian soldiers to salute it; 3) Formal apology. Gruff Governor Stumpf, stumped, wired to Chancellor & Foreign Minister of Austria Monsignor Ignaz Seipel for instruc- tions. "Yield," was the substance of the Monsignor's reply. On the same day that the flag had been torn down, it was replaced and saluted by 30 Austrian soldiers, while Consul Riccardi & staff gave the famed rising Fascist cheer...
Germany will soon have a new Chancellor (Prime Minister). Name: Dr. Otto Braun. Party: Socialist. Present occupation: Prime Minister of Prussia. Characteristics: bald, preacher-like, thoughtful, sarcastic, stern. Famed? Yes, because in 1925 German Socialists cast 7,785,678 ballots in an unsuccessful attempt to elect him president...
That Socialist Braun will be the next German Chancellor was the virtually unanimous forecast of correspondents last week, when 40,000,000 Germans trudged to the polls through a nationally pouring rain and elected to the Reichstag a potent phalanx of Socialist deputies, more than twice as numerous as the runner-up Nationalist cohorts...
...election returns not fully verified last week show that the numerical strengths of the various parties in the forthcoming Reichstag, will be as compared to the previous Reichstag: Socialists 152, previously 131; Catholic Centrists (the party of Chancellor Dr. Wilhelm Marx) 62, previously 68; Nationalists (once the party of Hindenburg) 72, previously 110; Communists 54, previously 45; People's (the party of Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann) 44, previously 51; Democrats 25, previously 32, Economic Union 23, previously 21; Bavarian Peoples party 16, previously 19; Voelkische (the reactionary monarchist Ludendorffers) 12, previously 13; Independents 5, previously 3. Peasants...