Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, 62, died suddenly last week. He was five feet high, ruddily Pickwickian in appearance, utterly efficient, unoriginal and orthodox. Wrote the London Economist: "Starting at the Exchequer in 1940 from the premise of sound and conventional budgeting, Sir Kingsley Wood was the Chancellor in office when this country crossed into the land of promise where the nation's real resources and not its money became the basis of public economics. . . ." Mourned Winston Churchill: "We shall not easily fill...
Caleb Frank ("Turk") Gates Jr., 39-year-old chancellor of the University of Denver, .Princeton football and track star of the '20s, son of the longtime president of Robert College in Constantinople, won a major's commission in the Army's Specialist Reserve, will probably be sent to Turkey as an intelligence officer...
Died. Reginald McKenna, 80, onetime Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer, onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, since 1919 chairman of London's Midland (largest) Bank; in London.' As First Lord of the Admiralty (1908-11) he battled for British naval expansion against President of the Board of Trade Winston Churchill-who succeeded him in the naval post in time for World...
...Austrian Chancellor who talked back to Hitler, Kurt von Schuschnigg, after Anschluss was placed under fortress arrest near the village of Nördlingen in Bavaria. Six months ago he was removed to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, at Oranienburg. No word since...
...health from a stormy visit with Adolf Hitler. Sofia and Berlin denied there had been a visit. But no one could forget other men who had left the Führer's presence the worse for wear. At Berchtesgaden in 1938, just before the annexation of Austria, stubborn Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg had been shattered by hysterics and threats...