Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, including Piccadilly's advertising signs (see cut), were turned up to their prewar glory. Thousands of Londoners cheered, and moppets who had never seen the show murmured with delight. This was a happy prelude to an otherwise depressing week for Britain. In the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps presented his 1949-50 budget. Under his severe guidance, Britain had sweated, toiled, and made a sensational recovery (TIME, March 28). Now, the nation felt, it was due for something more than the lights of London. Britons wanted lower taxes, continuation of cheap food, cheaper...
Accent on Interest. Beloff complained that, except for a few "radicals such as Chancellor Hutchins of the University of Chicago," there is "a certain lack of boldness" on the part of educators. They seem sold on the idea "that every young person has a right to a higher education, irrespective of ability or previous training." And what is the result? A notion, said Beloff, "that the total number of students is more important than the quality of the work done...
...Austere Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins, 50, a strenuous foe of physical exercise (he abolished intercollegiate football at the University of Chicago nine years ago), crammed his 6 ft. 3 in. into an undersized football uniform for You're in the Styx, Professor, the annual faculty show. Hutchins struck a blow for higher education by warbling, in an uncertain baritone, The Rose Bowl Blues...
...16th Century, Richard Chancellor, captain of the Edward Bonaventure, sailed from England to Russia. He reported: "The Russian upper classes overeat and overdrink; but the poor is very innumerable, and live most miserably . . . nor the fish cannot be so stinking nor rotten, but they will...
...returns last week, they provided an enlightening glimpse into that enigma, the collective German mind. Though they may have been chastened, the Germans had lost none of their admiration for strong men. Top place (with 3,937 out of 8,500 votes) went to Germany's first Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who once bragged that the great problems of history are solved by blood & iron. Next, with 773 votes, came Winston Churchill, who had helped to break up Bismarck's Reich with blood & sweat...