Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Britons had been basking in the sunny news of increased production and exports, unmindful of Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps's warnings of storms ahead (TIME, Jan. 19). Observers noted some black facts...
...Kurt von Schuschnigg, 50, pre-Anschluss chancellor of Austria, won a job lecturing at St. Louis University...
...highest court of all-the House of Lords. The Lords, represented by five peers of the realm, turned Mr. Baxter down. Parliament, they said, understood the word "consummate" as it was "understood in common parlance and in the light of social conditions known to exist," which, the Lord Chancellor added, included the establishment of birth control clinics...
...There is danger, too," warned the full-wigged Lord Chancellor, lantern-jawed Viscount Jowitt, "in too strict reliance on the words of the Prayer Book. . . . It seems to me that the essence of the view of Christian marriage is that any children born into a family should be brought up and nurtured in the Christian faith. That is 'not the same thing as saying that a marriage is not consummated unless children are procreated, or that procreation is the principal end of marriage...
...Fund, to which both Britain and France belong, was set up to place some controls over governmental currency manipulations. Despite the objections of both the Fund and London's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, Premier Schuman's government decided that this hand had to be played alone if necessary because of the fall in exports. The squabble will not help ideas of West European unity along in the face of the worst economic crisis since 1932. But the worst blow will be dealt to the hope that the bank would replace the economic law of the jungle with...