Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iron Chancellor" was summoned, early one morning in his roistering student days, to give an account of his misdeeds to the Rector of his college. Flinging on a bathrobe and whistling to his great boar hound, he sought that worthy, en deshabille. Becoming annoyed during the conversation which ensued, he picked up the Rector's inkstand, flung it at his head, missed, and strode from the office with the boar hound at heel...
Acting upon instructions from President von Hindenburg, Chancellor Luther last week continued his efforts to smooth the way for ratification of the Locarno treaties by Germany...
...protest against the pacts (TIME, Nov. 2). He "carried on" with a "rump" cabinet and drew fire from the Socialist Vorwaerts as follows: "It is naive indeed for the present Government's supporters to behave as though nothing had happened and Luther must remain the eternal Chancellor of the German Republic...
...driving home his views to the electorate, the Chancellor made several impassioned speeches at various centres throughout Germany. Excerpts...
...evening it was announced that Glasgow's new lord chancellor was suave, bemonocled Austen Chamberlain, winner by 300 votes over gusty, rotund Gilbert K. Chesterton, and by 1,000 over lean, intellectual Sidney Webb...