Word: chancellor
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...years ago, ex-Prodigy Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago, received a longdistance call. It was from ex-Isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Said he: "What's this world government? If I knew, I might be for it." Replied Hutchins: "Call back in about two years. We're working...
This week, Chancellor Hutchins' Committee to Frame a World Constitution had the answer Lindbergh wanted. The draft constitution called for:1) a "federal convention" composed of one popularly elected delegate for each 1,000,000 of the world's population; 2) a chief executive and a legislative council elected by the convention; 3) a grand tribunal and a supreme court; 4) a tribune to serve as the spokesman for minorities; 5) a chamber of guardians for control of the armed forces. The plan's cornerstone: "Universal government of justice, founded on the rights...
...committees" seized government offices and services in the Czech coup, the lesson was not lost on neighboring Austria. Last week Socialist Minister of the Interior Oskar Helmer banned "action committees," which Communists were trying to form in Austrian unions. His police also broke up a Communist demonstration marching to Chancellor Leopold Figl's office...
...baldness under a mop of false hair. For years afterward Britain's professional men continued to wear wigs that marked them as doctor, lawyer, soldier or clergyman. Today, Britain's judges and lawyers, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the clerks of Parliament and the Lord Chancellor all wear wigs on duty...
Died. John, Viscount Sankey, 81, retired Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1929-35); in London. Slow-moving, conservative Sankey, shocked by miners' working conditions, became a labor hero in 1919 when as head of a special Royal Commission he recommended the nationalization of Britain's coal mines...