Word: chancellor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Austria's Dr. Karl Renner, the veteran Social Democrat whom Russia had placed in power, last week resigned as Chancellor. The Volkspartei, victorious at the elections (TIME, Dec. 3) was busy organizing a new multi-party Cabinet. The incoming Chancellor, slender, pleasant, subtle, 43, was a man few Austrians knew much about until the Allied victory in Europe. His name: Leopold Figl...
CHICAGO, Dec. 6--Robert M. Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago and the nation's leading exponent of traditionalism in university curricula, admitted yesterday that he is "not enthusiastic" about the Committee Report on "General Education in a Free Society" and that he believes its chief importance is as a "manifestation of the growing national sense of the urgency of a true liberal education...
Like many institutions of higher learning, Chicago is opening its doors to a steadily increasing stream of returning veterans. Chancellor Hutchins feels that they are largely men who have serious college aims before them, and he has considerably toned down his last winter's "educational hoboes" stand on the GI Bill of Rights...
Hugh Dalton, Labor's shy new Chancellor of the Exchequer, had quite an audience. Present in the House of Commons were three distinguished predecessors: Winston Churchill, Sir John Anderson, Viscount Simon. Ex-cabbies and miners among the new Labor Members, many of them sitting on the floor of the overcrowded House, critically eyed their man. From the packed gallery peered the Bank of England's Governor Lord Catto. To lords and cabbies, Hugh Dalton was about to open the new Socialist Government's first budget...
...Berchtesgaden one prewar afternoon, Austria's timid Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg sat under a tree, waiting to be browbeaten. "Nearby Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel peacefully sunned himself on the porch. Last week Keitel told what happened next. Hitler appeared in the doorway, screaming: "Keitel, come here!" Schuschnigg watched as Germany's tall, arrogant Chief of the Supreme High Command strode into the house...