Word: chancellor
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Ever since Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins "de-emphasized" football in 1939, Chicago had been a member by courtesy only. But so long as Chicago still played basketball, track and tennis with the other nine, such potential Big Ten members as Notre Dame, Nebraska, Pittsburgh and Iowa State could not be included...
Europe's governments had repealed anti-Jewish legislation. Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania had been forced to it by armistice terms. Austria's Chancellor Leopold Figl sweepingly promised Jews full civil rights. But all over Europe, Jews who returned to their old homes were received as unwelcome strangers. The Nazi-seized property they claimed had frequently been taken over by other war victims. There was no shelter, no clothing, no food, and little sympathy to spare...
President Conant will be the principal speaker at the inauguration this Friday of 1927 Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton, one of the leading physicists in atomic bomb research, as the ninth chancellor of Washington University. Also expected to attend the installation, which falls on the ninety-third anniversary of the founding of the university, are brothers Karl and Wilson Compton...
...Minister, for only under his soothing leadership could country-bred Ernie Bevin work together with the "Cockney Sparrow" Herbert Morrison, whose warmth has won him a far larger personal following than Bevin's. Bevin himself wanted the power of the purse. Said he: "Give me five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I will so alter this country that no one will ever change it back." Reticent, scholarly Hugh Daiton, who considers himself insufficiently appreciated as a foreign-affairs expert, wanted to go to Whitehall. Attlee agreed, but later, during a solitary lunch, he mulled things over...
...office ("Life is Real, Life is Ernest" soon became a common quip). He likes a drink and a chat, but is pathetically awkward at making friends. Nevertheless he won underpaid Foreign Office hearts by going to bat for a general salary raise. When a friend suggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Daiton, might object, Bargainer Bevin roared: "I'll take the worthy doctor by his pants and swing him around my head till...