Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tough little Chancellor Leopold Figl maneuvered so skillfully that even Austria's Communists backed his gesture of defiance to Russia...
...colleagues on the Cabinet Committees are shy, pedantic Hugh Dalton, whose brilliant work as Chancellor of the Exchequer has created a minor sensation; erudite, aristocratic ex-Communist John Strachey, Labor's new Food Minister; ailing, aging (74) Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India; austere theoretician Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; redhaired, demonstrative Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, who used to be Morrison's Parliamentary Secretary. Bellicose Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, who is in charge of housing (only one out of five new houses may be privately built), has promised bombed-out Britons...
...Washington University last week, Chancellor Arthur H. Compton assigned some 40 scientists to basic nuclear studies and the many unsolved engineering problems involved in making atomic engines Said Compton: "A battleship with an atomic power unit would use the unit to propel the ship, and at the same time might produce materials from which atomic bombs could be made...
Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton triumphantly announced that Britain's own 2½%, 21-year domestic loan of ?415 million had been oversubscribed...
...Earl of Athlone, great-uncle of Princess Elizabeth, is chancellor of the University of London. Last week, when the University made the Princess an honorary Bachelor of Music, the chancellor felt moved to comment, implicitly, on honorary degrees in general and, explicitly, on the Princess's degree in particular. Had Princess Elizabeth gone to the University, he said, she would have won the sheepskin anyway-"by the somewhat more laborious process of examination...