Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bismarck was extremely anxious that the text of the Treaty of Berlin should remain secret until the last possible moment. Months in advance De Blowitz had set to work to gain an ascendancy over one of the Iron Chancellor's secretaries. The secretary placed the information which De Blowitz desired in the lining of his own hat, and each day the rotund correspondent sought and found what he wanted in the dark checkroom of the restaurant at which he and the secretary dined-carefully apart. It is history that the Times secured a "beat" over every other newspaper...
Wilhelm's relations with Harden were highly interesting on three occasions: 1) The day when the Emperor had Harden clapped into a damp fortress at the mouth of the Vistula for lèse majesté. 2) The night on which the Imperial Chancellor secretly conveyed a large sum of money to release Prisoner Harden. 3) The day of Wilhelm's abdication, when he declared: "Now Germany must send Harden to Versailles. He is my greatest enemy, and has been so from the beginning; but Germany has no better peace-maker...
...Lord High Chancellor of England, Frederick Edwin Smith, Baron and Earl of Birkenhead, now Secretary of State for India, introduced this bill into Parliament. Both the Lords and Commoners felt obliged to honor the weight of legal prestige behind the measure, and passed it. When British barristers realized its revolutionary import, special lectures bearing upon its interpretation were instituted by legal bodies throughout England...
...veteran of both the Boer War and the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign of the World War, in the latter of which he was twice wounded. He was Chairman of the Labor Party in 1921, and Commander of the Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve in 1924. Since then he has served as Chancellor for Lancaster in the cabinet of Ramsay MacDonald...
Quickly after his arrival Cardinal Hayes went to the Vatican with Mgr. Stephen J. Donahue, secretary of the N. Y. archdiocese, and Father J. Francis A. McIntyre, assistant chancellor and also actuary of the matrimonial court of that archdiocese. These the Cardinal was obliged to leave outside as he proceeded to the Pope's library, a promenade interrupted by the greeting of the Swiss Guards and the gendarmes at the Vatican entrance, in the Court of St. Damascus, and in Clementine Hall. In the library the Cardinal started to fall on his knees at the Pope's feet...