Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West of Germany, Hitler and Himmler intended to set up a new state called Burgundy, which would sprawl across parts of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. The capital city: either Ghent or Dijon. Its chancellor would be Léon Degrelle, Belgian Fascist leader...
...temperature of The Crisis patient was charted in Britain's dwindling dollar holdings and in her trade balance (TIME, Feb. 3). Britons asked themselves if a Government which had bet wrong on a shortage in coal might not also bet wrong on a shortage in dollars. Would Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton suddenly appear in Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell's calamitous role? Or would the Government, now alert to dangers, try to save dollars by restrictions on such comparative luxuries as U.S. cigarets, Hollywood films, Texas grapefruit and dried eggs...
Speaking at Newcastle, hub of the nowly-nationalized coal industry, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton said bluntly that Britain was living on borrowed money and must produce more goods for export of face a lower standard of life and more unemployment...
Fortunately, though he can't quite save the day, Cuckoo Clark notably brightens the evening. Hurling himself headlong into any role he can find a costume for -monk, chancellor, Foreign Legionnaire, laundress-Bobby leers at the actresses, spits on the plot, and keeps hurrying nowhere...
...formed up behind the boys' choir. Carrying burning tapers, the procession marched into the jammed court and up toward the velvet-draped bier. After a short scripture reading, the choir began to sing Mrs. Bond's The Hand of You. Then white-maned Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Chancellor of the University of Southern California, began the "narration:" "No vote of critics, no surge of publicity can elect a composer to the shrine reserved for those who write our folk music. Only the voices of the hearts of the people may choose the candidate for this honor...