Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty call him "Rufus Rex." Last week Rufus Rex-Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, 70 -quit after 24 years as president of the University of Southern California. In U.S.C.'s official handout, he struck out the word "resigned," left it reading that he had been "elevated" to chancellor, an advisory post. Three days before, a committee that claimed to represent 90% of the faculty had appealed to U.S.C.'s trustees to investigate the "indefensible, inequitable" salaries imposed by Rufus...
Labor's shy Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, was happy about...
Perhaps Dalton did not have all the answers, but opposition to the Dalton budget was perfunctory. Even Conservative speaker Anthony Eden was partially reassured: "The Chancellor has played his part," said he, though he added, "but what are his colleagues doing?" His answer came from Leeds (see below...
...similar circumstances Chancellor of the Exchequer Gladstone drank eggnog; Disraeli, brandy & soda; and a grinning Churchill announced that he was not sure whether his amber-colored liquid was cider or ginger ale (he prefers brandy to either of them...
Died. Caleb Frank Gates, 88, onetime missionary, longtime (1903-32) progressive president of famed Robert (American) College in Istanbul, father of Uni versity of Denver Chancellor Caleb F. Gates Jr. ; in Denver...