Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prestige of France and Germany had become involved up to the hilt over a matter intrinsically of secondary import. Premier Briand was expected by his countrymen to insert Poland as a buttress against anti-French influence on the Council from Germany. Chancellor Luther was daily instructed from Berlin that he must withdraw the German application for League membership if the Council was going to be packed against Germany. Sir Austen Chamberlain found himself in a still more awkward position. The British press flayed him daily because he did not insist that, whatever happened, Germany must be got within the League...
...mother Cordelia Cutter Knight (the Cutter family came to Massachusetts in 1630). Little Bertha's brother is named Austin M. He is now a retired admiral. Her sister, Jessie L., grew up and married a widower named David Starr Jordan and is now wife of the chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford Jr. University. Among the girls who lived in her little town was Rose Casey, now Mrs. Hayes, who is a member of the city council of Northampton, and also Ruth Baker, now Mrs. Pratt, the first Alderwoman on the New York City Council...
...recently asked the Chancellor of Germany what he thought would become of the political difficulties he was combatting, if all prices were suddenly reduced by one half. Although he said that this was merely an idle fancy, he finally bad to agree with me that if it could be done the political problems would disappear like smoke. On the purchasing power of the mass of the people the security and peace of the World undoubtedly depends, and the only way to make this purchasing power sufficiently great is through scientific and mass production...
...Former Chancellor Wirth of Germany was listed as having obtained the most valuable plum: immense timber concessions in the Volga forests. There followed as a close second the extensive rights for exploiting Russian manganese deposits obtained by the Harriman interests...
...Vienna, Chancellor Karl Ramek of Die Republik Osterreich signed an impressive looking document, which was likewise autographed by Dr. Edward Benes, Premier of the Ceskoslovenska Republika...