Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill presented his last budget (TIME, May 3), Great Britain was on the verge of her greatest industrial travail of the present century, the vast and paralyzing general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) and the long drawn out nagging coal strike which began at the same time and dwindled to a close TIME, Nov. 29) without ever being formally "settled." What effect have these two stupendous, unprecedented strikes had on the exchequer? How deep must British taxpayers dig into their pockets this coming twelvemonth to pay the piper because 6,000,000 workers...
Those golden twins, Gilbert and Sullivan, are about to file auspiciously into Boston with the resounding accompaniment of "I am the Lord High Chancellor" and a crew of genteel pirates. No matter who is the producer, these Victorian gentlemen are guaranteed to amuse: and when the leader in their resurrection is Winthrop Ames even more may be anticipated--if more than amusement is desired in light opera...
...heard within its walls. Deputies representing every German political faction spoke in well nigh unanimous agreement for something over a half day, amid repeated applause from all over the House. No Cabinet member took part in the debate, but Deputy Friedrich Dessauer, speaking for the Centrist party of Chancellor (Prime Minister) Wilhelm Marx, was considered to have voiced the opinion of the government when he said...
Thronging Berliners waved British flags and cried "Hoch!" joyfully as Edward of Wales arrived at Berlin by airplane last week, and strolled down Unter den Linden, He wore the natty uniform of a British naval officer, and thus clad was presented to Chancellor Wilhelm Marx by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. Who but this shy, almost wistful prince could have made Germans forget the War and throng around him in a tribute to his personality as miraculous as it was sincere...
Most potent though not soonest to walk the plank would be famed Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor (Prime Minister) of the German Republic during 1922-23, and present Chairman of the rapidly expanding and resurgent Hamburg-Amerikas-Linie which has obsorbed the Kosmos, Stinnes and German-Australian lines thus bringing its tonnage up to 850,000, as against...