Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name Austria first appeared (as Osterrich) in a state document, signed by the Emperor Otto III, on Nov. 1, 996. In the grandiose neoclassic Parliament building on the Ringstrasse last week, Chancellor Leopold Figl glumly celebrated Austria's 950th birthday with a speech pleading for Austria's place on the planet: "The Austrian nation . . . appeals to the whole world to enable this state to remain a center of democratic peace and freedom in Europe...
...Archibald MacLeish, poet and ex-Librarian of Congress; George D. Stoddard, president of the University of Illinois; Arthur H. Compton, chancellor of Washington University (St. Louis); Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times. Alternates: Chester Bowles, ex-OPA Administrator; Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College; Charles S. Johnson, president-elect of Fisk University (see below); George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College; Anna Rosenberg of OWMR...
Gruber is in this country at present to negotiate possible admission of Austria into the United Nations. A leader in the underground in Tyrol during the war, he now heads the liberal wing of the Catholic Peoples Party in Austria and has been mentioned as successor to the present Chancellor. He was prominent in the work of the Paris Peace Conference, where the settlement of the minority problem in Tyrol was hailed by General Smuts as the "only successful arrangement which came out of the Conference." His work in the United States has been met with partial success already, with...
Elliott Roosevelt peered ahead at life without price controls, reported back: "You will see bread at $15 a loaf." Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago, peeked around the atomic corner and saw "an era of leisure and plenty," but he was not happy. "If we are not all killed in the next few years," he declared, "we will be bored to death." George Santayana, 83-year-old poet-philosopher, now resident in Italy, guessed:"I won't live to see it, but I believe that Russia soon may dominate all of Europe - with Germany and France...
...entice us with higher snobbery," he added, looking at Chicago's chancellor, "for if we can all have knowledge for the asking, its snob value is very small...