Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colleges had not been flooded-as Chicago's Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins and others feared-with "educational hobos." Most veterans seemed grateful for the help they got, more than glad to work out the difference. For vets out for an easy time, the 52-20 club (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was a simpler solution. But many a vet at college still felt that the Government had promised to underwrite the whole cost of his education. So did some veteran-conscious congressmen. Three bills to increase allotments died when the 79th Congress adjourned, may be up again next session...
Last fortnight one of the South's richest private universities (endowment: $30 million) picked a new head man. As fourth chancellor in 71 years, Tennessee's Vanderbilt University chose mild-looking, shy Harvie Branscomb, 51, dean of Duke University's divinity school. Alabama-born Dr. (of Philosophy) Branscomb, onetime Rhodes Scholar, was a World War I friend of Vanderbilt's outgoing chancellor Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, now president of the Carnegie Foundation. They served together in Belgium on the Hoover relief commission. At Duke University, he has been an outstanding leader in the intellectual and moral progress...
Died. Dr. Wilhelm Marx, 83, scholarly Chancellor of pre-Nazi Germany (1923-24, 1926-28), who tried to solve the knotty reparations problem by agreeing to the Dawes Plan, in 1925 the unsuccessful opponent of Hindenburg for the presidency; in Bonn, Germany. The Nazis indicted him for fraud but they never pressed the charges, allowed him to sink into obscurity, where American troops found him in 1945, "bewildered by events," ignored by his people, all but forgotten by the world...
...festival cost 900 schillings, about six months' pay for an average Austrian worker. In the center box, filled in the old days with European royalty and U.S. millionaires, the native citizenry could ogle General Mark Clark, his wife and daughter, the Archbishop of Salzburg, and Austria's Chancellor Leopold Figl...
...nationalization issue had forced Austrian parties into unusual positions. Chancellor Figl's own Catholic People's Party, suspected of being cool toward nationalization, warmed to it markedly when it seemed the most direct way of opposing Russian penetration. The Communists, having loudly called for drastic nationalization measures, did not dare back down even under the threat of fierce Russian displeasure...