Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they could not deal with the questions raised by the Economist, the delegates did make some progress on other fronts. Most important was the discussion of the relation (some Britons call it a conflict) between the Commonwealth and a Western European Union. Dominion representatives asked Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps if Britain's commitments to supply capital goods to Europe under the Marshall Plan would not interfere with the shipment of similar goods to their countries. Cripps said no. The visitors seemed impressed when he pointed out that Britain's capital goods exports to Commonwealth nations...
...practically everybody had heard about the Great Books, but hardly anybody seemed to be reading them. Only 167 adults had signed up for the study groups started by the University of Chicago. Then in 1947 Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins invited Businessman Lynn A. Williams Jr. to try selling culture to the public as he had sold radios and auto parts (TIME, June 16, 1947). Last week President Williams reported that his non-profit Great Books Foundation had signed up 50,000 customers in 300 cities...
...school, the most heavily endowed of its kind in the U.S., will be open only to graduate physicians, dentists, nurses, and others trained for public health work, and will concentrate heavily on research in the field of industrial health. As to its opening date, Pitt's Chancellor Rufus H. Fitzgerald said: "The university would rather begin operation in 1950 with the best faculty in the world than in 1949 with the second best...
Hugh Dalton, who draws down $20,000 a year as Britain's Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (a cabinet sinecure), made a major concession to the harsh facts of modern British life: "because of the rise in the cost of living" he swore off cigarettes* (he had been smoking two packs a day, at 70? a pack...
...Casual mention of tobacco proved disastrous to Dalton last November. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he prematurely let slip a part of the top-secret budget by jovially remarking to a newsman friend: "You might pay a bit more for beer, but I'm not putting any more on tobacco." Next day he admitted his indiscretion and resigned under pressure...