Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They gave their puddy-hatted guest a shillalah. And while he brandished it, they drew him about the campus in an Irish "jaunting car."* Finally, in Ulster Hall, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. He was Winston Spencer Churchill, idolized as "Winnie," respectfully deferred to as Chancellor of the British Exchequer, once (1911-15) First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty...
...Churchill rested at Belfast, the guest of Premier Sir James Craig of Ulster, he may well have recalled the day 14 years ago when Ulstermen rioted against the militant First Sea Lord whom they acclaimed in his peaceful guise of Chancellor last week...
...will not deny that my first meeting with the German Chancellor stirred mingled feelings within me. ... It was my duty to meet him, however . . . [and] at Locarno we spoke 'European.' It is a new language which all the world must learn! I commend it to you for study, my friends?even if it is not yet certain that the Germans understood it. ... I do not pretend that the Locarno agreement realized absolute security for France. If some one asks me whether this agreement dispenses with measures of security my answer is 'No, it does...
...John Jay was Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court at 44. Charles James Fox was a junior lord of admiralty, a thorn in George Ill's side, at 21. William Pitt, Britain's prime minister for 17 years, assumed office at 24, having previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. At 20, Alexander Hamilton was a leading authority on government; at 24, conceived the National Bank. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence at 33. Robert Peel's name was great in Parliament soon after he was 21. J. T. Delane became editor of the London Times...
...Both in Washington and in London there was merely a serene discussion which led to an honorable settlement.... The Chancellor of the British Exchequer, Mr. Churchill, displayed a sense of comprehension and responsibility...