Word: chancellor
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Nevertheless the House of Commons doggedly passed the monstrosity. When it reached the House of Lords, Labor's Lord Chancellor Viscount Jowitt confessed that "this compromise has not the justification of logic behind it." The Lords scornfully rejected the amendment, and the government gave up. The noose's place in British justice will be unchanged...
...many people have managed to wade through the six-volume, 160,000-word report of Harry Truman's Commission on Higher Education. One who has is Robert Maynard Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago. His comments, published in last week's Saturday Review of Literature, were, as usual, pungent and provocative. The commission, said he, "is confident that vices can be turned into virtues by making them larger. Its heart is in the right place; its head does not work very well...
Divorced. Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, 49, chancellor of the University of Chicago; by Maude Phelps Hutchins, forty-fiveish; after nearly 27 years of marriage, three children; in Chicago...
Other news of graduations last week: ¶ At New York University, imminent rain caused a speechless outdoor commencement. Said Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase: "I had prepared an eloquent address. There is thunder in the distance. It will be printed and mailed to you." ¶ At the first commencement of Vermont's new Marlboro College (TIME, Sept. 8), there were four commencement speakers and only one graduate. ¶ At Missouri's Rockhurst College (Kansas City), a bus driver and a union business agent received the first U.S. bachelor's degrees in labor relations...
...debate. He sat on a step with his elbow on the throne seat, passing a fretful hand through his thinning hair. Lord Chief Justice Goddard declared Mr. Ede's action unconstitutional. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood leveled a stern, accusing finger at Lord Jowitt who, as Lord Chancellor, was Prime Minister Attlee's nominee in the House of Lords, and thundered...