Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalist members of the Cabinet (three of them) interpreted this resolution as a party command to resign and forthwith presented their resignations to Chancellor Luther. It was felt that this development would inevitably lead to serious delays in ratifying the treaties. The Monarchist press was headlining: "The Pact is dead...
Glasgow University last week elected a lord chancellor. As the first voters approached the polls, they were greeted by a sally of thoroughly putrefied eggs. Pease meal followed, a light shower, and a few handfuls of soot. More voters appeared and the campaign arguments thickened-clouds of eggs, bursting with fabulous stench; here a rich asortment of cod heads raining down; there a herring, another, a shoal of flying herrings long since removed from the sea. Fogs of soot darkened the scene and a blizzard of meal. Scraping fish omelet from their eyes, the partisans closed in ardent wrestling bouts...
...second floor of the Palais flew up, and the chief foreign ministers of Europe announced that they had just initialed the Rhine pact and a sheaf of arbitration treaties! While candles all but showered the distinguished statesmen with sparks, Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France, and Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany, beamed out upon the multitude, with the consciousness that seven years after the World War their countries had at last joined as equals in an accord for peace...
...Vice Chancellor Joseph Wells of Oxford University put polishing touches to an address in choicest Latin, donned historic regalia, had the students summoned before him and convoked them for the term with the following among other words (translated...
...defence minister Gessler, the acting chancellor was on the platform, as well as President von Hindenburg, arraved in his old uniform resplendent with spiked helmet and imperial decorations, a great bowl has naturally gore an from the Socialists and Liberals at the impropriety of Republican offieia's participating in an anti-Republican demonstration...