Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally no comparison can be drawn between the Laundress-Empress and Mrs. Rosa Lewis.* The Seventh Edward, though jovial, was no such humorist as Peter the Great. He merely liked his tidbits well prepared. When Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented her cook, Mrs. Rosa Lewis,± to Edward VII (the Prince of Wales) and told him she was a good cook he never doubted it. "Damme," said Edward, "She takes more pains with a cabbage than with a chicken. . . . She gives me nothing sloppy, nothing colored up to dribble...
...Karl Schwertfeger, Chancellor of Austria, brought his oration to a powerful close. The pro-Jewish minority protested and was ejected. The deputies unanimously passed the law. The state would reimburse all for their property as valued in their tax returns; for certain classes there was an extension of time; but eventually, within six months, every Jew and son-of-a-Jew must leave Austria. The months passed. Austria was Jewless. The decadent Aryans had saved themselves from the facile Semites...
...Chancellor Herbert S. Hadley of Washington University, onetime (1909-13) governor of Missouri: "Ill, I was unable to deliver my speech at a university club luncheon in Kansas City, Mo. But the mayor read aloud what I had written, including my endorsement of President Clarence Cook Little's (University of Michigan) plan to minimize the importance of college football by having rival universities prepare two teams apiece. Let them be called, for example, the Red team and the Blue. Let only Red meet Red and Blue meet Blue, a game at each college on the same day, 'thus...
Winston Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer: "The principal difference between Mr. Churchill and a cat, as Mark Twain might say, is that a cat has only nine lives. . . . 'In war you can be killed but once,' he [Mr. Churchill] has said, 'but in politics many times...
Luther. President von Hindenburg took the sensible course of biding his time before choosing a new Chancellor, and cabled stolid, pink-faced, sterling public servant, onetime Chancellor Hans Luther, to return by the first boat from Buenos Aires where he has been vacationing. Dr. Luther has been the outstanding Finance Minister of Germany since the War in numerous Cabinets;* and he held together a cabinet of his own during almost the whole of 1925, forming, another which lasted from January to May, 1926. A ponderous German "crisis" which may last for weeks or months before a new Chancellor is chosen...