Word: chancellor
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...having served as representative of the Trade Union Council in Russia in 1920 and as labor adviser at the International Labor Conference in Washington in 1919. A member of Parliament during the 1920's, she received an LL.D. from Bristol University, which was presented to her by Winston Churchill, chancellor of the university...
Commenting on the contribution of India to the war effort, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Madras said, "It is considerable, but there is definite room for improvement. We are now producing at the rate of 90 per cent of our defense requirements, yet there is a great shortage of adequately trained technical engineers...
...fact that Hitler did not once refer to America he considered especially significant, for this showed that the Chancellor was afraid to worry his people about the prospect of America taking a more active part as a decisive factor in this war as in the last...
Born on a Tennessee farm of Scotch-Welsh parents, McGill worked his way through Vanderbilt University (where he played star tackle and belonged to the famed literary group of "Fugitives"), took time out to fight with the Marines in World War I. At political odds with the chancellor, he left shortly before the end of his senior year, went to the Nashville Banner as sports editor under his fellow classman (now publisher) James Geddes Stahlman. He originated a popular, Will Rogerish column called I'm the Gink, branched into political writing with prodigious energy. Shortly after going...
...very solid grounds for confidence") to Cabinet meetings in London, then to holiday on his rolling moors in Yorkshire. Droopy-lidded Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's political valet at Munich, prepared to quit his office in the Treasury as head of the British Civil Service. Munich-time Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, now Lord Simon, Lord Chancellor, nursed through a garrulous House of Lords a bill empowering U.S. military forces in Britain to set up courts with criminal jurisdiction over American troops. Lord Runciman, Munich's advance man in Prague, had dropped out of sight. David...