Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps last week gave a smile of welcome for his new granddaughter. He also had an unaccustomed smile, almost as warm, for British industry...
This was as close as Cripps dared come to telling British workers (who last fortnight, through the Trades Union Congress, said that they would not accept wage ceilings) that they must not expect wage increases. "The Chancellor," said the Tory Daily Mail almost with relish, "is pretty good at these unpleasant jobs...
Died. Albert Carl Grzesinski, 68, German democrat, Minister of the Interior (1926-30) for the Weimar Republic; of pneumonia; in Queens, N.Y. In 1931, as Berlin's Police President, he tried to gag Rabble-Rouser Hitler, ordered him deported as an undesirable alien, but Chancellor Heinrich Brüning did not sign the order, and a year later the Nazis hounded Grzesinski out of the country...
Tempest over Teacups. Now chancellor of Peking, China's oldest and best university, Dr. Hu is his country's most influential educator. He is also its No. 1 living historian and philosopher, and a wartime ambassador to the U.S. His newest achievement: the first syndicated column in China, which now broadcasts his views on social reform to 50 newspapers from Manchuria to Siam...
...razor's edge. Inflation has reduced professors' salaries to $30 (U.S.) a month. The typical student diet: wo ton (millet, cornmeal and water). Laboratories and libraries have never recovered from Japanese ravages; for one history class, Peking has only three textbooks. For the next ten years, Chancellor Hu says, China ought to concentrate all her scholars, dollars and energies on five (or at most ten) select universities. To presidents of the 138 lesser colleges, Hu's plan looks like merger or death. It has already been opposed by officials of Chiang Kai-shek's Ministry...