Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conviction of the University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins that present-day man can find the cure for what ails him in the Great Books ("the minutes of the previous meeting"). Last week his theory drew a lively attack from one of education's new boy wonders, Harold A. Taylor,†† who at 33 is president of New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College. President Taylor accused Hutchins (who at 48 is a kind of boy wonder emeritus) of living in the sterile past. Wrote Taylor in a column-long letter-to-the-editor...
...after Bevin's casual reference to Lend-Lease, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton made a not-so-casual plea for crisis aid from the International Bank (whose staff calls its present quarters, one of London's deepest air-raid shelters, "the second Fort Knox"). Bank President John J. McCloy pointed out that the Bank was designed to make only commercially sound loans, attractive to private investors, and not to grant emergency aid not likely to be repaid...
Kurt von Schuschnigg, 49, last Chancellor of Austria before Hitler moved in, arrived in Manhattan from Italy with wife Vera and six-year-old daughter Cissy, promptly headed for Brooklyn, declaring his hope to settle there. A visitor for two months last spring, he now returned, said he, as "a refugee, a displaced person." His plan for the future? "To live a quiet life...
Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor-who looks every inch the part, in or out of his white wig-arrived in the U.S. for a month's visit, explained himself to Manhattan reporters. The Lord Chancellor, Jowitt said, is a "sort of combination of a chief justice and a minister of justice." One of the titles of the 1,300-odd-year-old office is Keeper of the King's Conscience. "The King's conscience," confided the Lord Chancellor, "is much easier to keep than me own." He answered a personal question that had been...
...Navy League dinner. He said: "I'm sorry I'm late, but I've just left a Cabinet meeting. This is one of the most momentous days in the history of the British Empire, and I advise you to listen to the Chancellor of the Exchequer tonight...