Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grey Paper. Last week a revised version of the White Paper, written by stiff, hard-collared Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was finally released in London. At the same time, Franklin Roosevelt made a full report to Congress on the extent of Britain's reverse Lend-Lease. Both documents were soggy with timidity, nervous with embarrassment, befogged with evasions...
Hitler kept his eye on his homeland. In February 1938, he sent for Chancellor Schuschnigg, ranted and demanded. Then, on March 12 at 5:40 in the morning, German troops crossed the frontier, drove without opposition on Vienna. A bemused Britain and a sick France chose to see nothing fatal in the rape...
...when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer and the coming man of British politics, his young daughters came home for a holiday and brought along their favorite schoolteacher, Miss Frances Louise Stevenson. The entire family was charmed with the 23-year-old girl, thought her a paragon of intelligence, efficiency and wholesome good looks...
...assure the forcefulness of his work. The Iowa-born economist and historian (Great Cultural Traditions) is veteran No. 1 of the bitter wars fought around the University of Pittsburgh's skyscraper "Cathedral of Learning." There Turner made a fine teaching record only to be fired in 1934 by Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman. With this ousting, the Chancellor started something. Investigation by a professional committee of highest standing convicted the "Cathedral" of persistent violations of academic freedom, and found Turner a first-rate scholar and educator who had not tempered his opinions to possible sources of extra endowment. The only...
...Cabinet and Lord President of the Council, moved into Sir Kingsley's place. Sir John has been the candidate of British finance to succeed Churchill, has immense power on the home front and will continue as chairman of the Reconstruction Priorities Committee responsible for postwar planning. The new Chancellor is as conservative as leather chairs and old claret; an ironhanded Scotsman who battened down recalcitrants in Ireland and India after the last...