Word: chancellor
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...Chancellor. Austria's Chancellor...
government is recognized by Russia but not by the U.S. and Britain), is the lowest paid chief of state in Europe. Like all Austrian government employes, he receives 150 shillings ($15) a month. As Chancellor, Dr. Renner, a longtime Social Democrat, provisionally holds the presidency and portfolios of Foreign and Military Affairs. Of his nine ministers, three are members of the Volkspartei (old Christian Socialists), two are Socialists, two Communists and two without party affiliation...
...title as president of the University of Chicago-but none of his major duties and privileges-to suave, 44-year-old Ernest C. Colwell, who had ably served for the past year as vice president and dean of faculties. For himself Dr. Hutchins devised the new post of chancellor...
What purpose there was in this confusion, except to give Chancellor Hutchins more time for big thinking, was anybody's guess for the moment. But the science faculties, which include Hutchins' severest critics, saw one hopeful sign in the shuffle: up to succeed Colwell came 53-year-old Dr. R. G. Gustavson, ex-president of the University of Colorado, the first scientist to get a top administrative job since Hutchins appeared on the Chicago scene...
...mystery of the fake funeral picture of Adolf Hitler, which Argentina's Ahora said that it received by telephoto from Berlin (TIME, July 2), was solved. It proved to be a retouched 1934 photograph of Austria's Chancellor Dollfuss, murdered by Hitler's Nazi gunmen, lying in state (see cut). Somebody had simply dubbed in Hitler's face...