Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acorn-fed Virginia ham with the fat all on it, sat and talked late in the P.M.'s bedroom. Next day he settled to long, earnest talks with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. He lunched with the Bank of England's new Governor, Lord Catto (TIME, April 17), Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Anderson, saw Imperial Chemical's Lord McGowan, Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton. He also had an audience with King George...
Last week Archbishop Spellman's chancellor, Auxiliary Bishop J. Francis A. McIntyre, contradicted his superior. Speaking at a Communion breakfast, Bishop Mclntyre denied there was any anti-Semitism worth mentioning. It was just "a stuffed wolf," set up "by paid publicity agents [who] by exaggerating the doodling's in chalk of children playing on the streets . . . conjured up out of their imaginations the phantom of anti-Semitic hate." The whole thing, he said, was "a manufactured movement," created "for the deliberate purpose of besmirching the minority Catholic population...
...Future." The U.S. moved toward broadened recognition (see p. 77). Britain accomplished it. Stiff, stern Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer, beamingly announced to the House of Commons "a happy augury . . . for our future . . . relationship with France." Whitehall and the Algiers Liberation [Administrative] Committee had initialed: 1) a financial agreement, pegging the rate of exchange, for the duration, at 200 francs to the pound; 2) a mutual-aid agreement, pledging "all the military assistance that each is able to supply for joint prosecution...
Illustrious men came to Kirk Bramwith for the unveiling. J. G. Groeninger, an American in the consular service, drew aside the Union Jack which covered the window. Captain the Rev. R. Whincup, the village rector, stood under the Stars & Stripes to read a message from the King. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Ernest Brown made a speech. General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saluted the village spirit...
...lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into little, vague Alfred Duff Cooper's place as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Duff Cooper became envoy to the French in tempestuous Algiers...