Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francis Bacon (1561-1626). This energetic Elizabethan went to Cambridge at 12, to Paris as a diplomat at 16. He became a lawyer at 18, went into Parliament at 22. He could not decide between a public and speculative life, so combined the two. In 1618 he was Lord Chancellor. In 1592 he had written, "I have taken all knowledge to be my province," and had proceeded to map all the marches of that province, indicating the advances that should be made at once in every science; inventing new sciences and mapping their courses in a few terse words. Utility...
...redheaded" Winston Churchill, ultra-reactionary Chancellor of the British Exchequer, alarmist par excellence, hurled defiance at the Soviet government last week in terms so abusive as to make a diplomatic protest from Russia all but inevitable...
Adjutant telegraphers and telephonists interrupted momentarily the Kaiser's audience with his generals. The Imperial Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden was telephoning from Berlin. Local revolutions, prepared throughout Germany by the Independent Socialists had broken out at Kiel (Nov. 6), Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Magdeburg, Dresden. ... At Berlin a tide of civilian workers and mutinous soldiers was milling through the streets. Prince Max demanded that the Kaiser abdicate. The populace, he declared, had been convinced by Allied propaganda that the Allies would never make peace with a Hohenzollern, would trample across Germany to Berlin...
...dollar to 35 1/3, steadied, gathered strength, skyrocketed to 30¾%. Though explanations were many, two facts stood out sharply. Just before the franc's toboggan, Finance Minister Peret was obliged to announce that pourparlers for definitely funding the Franco-British debt had broken down between himself and Chancellor Winston Churchill of the British Exchequer at London. Conversely, the franc rose as soon as the French Cabinet and the Bank of France announced, after M. Peret's return to Paris from London, that the French Government would, if necessary, employ the $100,000,000 Morgan loan, floated in 1924 (TIME, March...
...Chancellor Marx, famed as the exceedingly close runner-up to von Hindenburg in the last presidential election (TIME, May 4, 1925), made the following announcements to the Reichstag before it adjourned...