Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manner of a civil-service undertaker, frigid Sir John Anderson, Conservative member of the War Cabinet, spoke first for the Government. His dull, domineering gloom gave the House the impression that his job was to bury the Plan. Members gave him a rough ride. Next day, cherubic Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood substituted his perky optimism for the mortician's mood. Sir John had at least approved some social-security innovations, but after half an hour's perking, Sir Kingsley seemed to be suggesting that any changes whatever would be deferred until after...
Clear the Road. "I am in despair," wrote a German soldier in his diary on Hitler's tenth anniversary as the Reich's Chancellor. "How much longer is it going to last? . . . What have I done? If I could only live in peace." When Soviet Author Ilya Ehrenburg saw the diary he provided the answer: "Who asked you to come to our country? You could have stayed at home with your wife. But you chose Hitler. There is only one thing left for you: 'Die, scoundrel! Clear the road for life...
Like Wilbur, who will become Stanford's chancellor for life, Tresidder is a physician. He has never practiced, since 1925 has directed the consolidated hotels and camps of Yosemite National Park. A woodsman, horseman and flyer who promoted skiing as a Western sport, Tresidder knows craggy Yosemite like his back yard. As a Stanford trustee since 1939, he has devoted the same lusty, detailed attention to "the Farm" (Stanford's name for its magnificent campus, once a horse-breeding ranch...
...these words Vice Chancellor Sir Hector James Wright Hetherington of the University of Glasgow last month advised the U.S. about drafting technical, scientific and professional students...
...British Lord Chancellor (Lawyer John Simon) and the U.S. President (Lawyer Franklin Roosevelt) had just announced that they were going to set up a United Nations Court of Justice to try all criminals-of-war-after the war. Molotov's answer (addressed, not to Britain and the U.S., but to the nine little Governments in Exile): Why not set up the court at once? To his Molotov cocktail the Foreign Commissar added a Stalin stinger: And why not begin by trying, and hanging, Nazi Arch-Criminal Rudolf Hess...