Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually, of course, the Earl of Birkenhead is sensitive to the slightest "Orient trouble" affecting India. He keeps his counsel, and sometimes he keeps it over a glass and a cigar; but when trouble is scented the quick legal mind that made him Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22) kindles, and he speaks as he did last week, before the House of Lords...
...John E. Williams, Vice Chancellor of Nanking University, was the sole U. S. citizen killed, last week, in China. An earnest and simple Christian, he was held in affectionate esteem by thousands of Chinese. Of him Dr. Keigwin, pastor of the Manhattan congregation which maintained Dr. Williams in China, said, on learning of his death, "Jack Williams was one of the best friends China ever had.... If he could speak he would say he accounted it a privilege to go to the Cross as Christ went...
...Williams met his death was told by an eyewitness. Dr. A. J. Bowen, Chancellor of Nanking University. He said: "I was crossing the campus with our university librarian when we noticed what we thought to be Northern [Shantungese] troops looting and burning the home of Dr. Daniels, also a faculty member...
Married. Alice Frances Hammond, daughter of John Henry Hammond, lawyer-banker; great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; niece of Ogden Haggerty Hammond, U. S. Ambassador to Spain; to George Arthur Victor Duckworth, grandson of the late John Campbell Campbell (1779-1861) onetime Lord Chancellor of England, descendant of Plantagenets; in Manhattan...
...Pittsburgh, and Washington will be visited. The schedule for this tour follows: April 16, Elk's Auditorium, Providence: April 18, Town Hall, New York: April 19, Hotel Stailer Ballroom, Buffalo: April 20, Masonic Hall, Cleveland: April 21, Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh: April 22, Masonic Auditorium, Washington: April 23, Chancellor's Hall, Albany...