Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long and devious career foxy old Franz von Papen has been frequently hunted. In 1932, when he was Germany's Chancellor, a suspicious-looking Mrs. Paul Budde was arrested in the Chancellery with a twelve-inch dagger concealed on her person. In 1934 Papen was on Adolf Hitler's purge list, but was saved by German Army guards sent to his home by the late General Werner von Fritsch. By 1935 Papen had proved his usefulness to Adolf Hitler as Minister to Austria, but Austrian Nazis tried several times to obliterate the Minister. In 1937 Papen...
...Office. Solid, profane, 51-year-old "P. J." Grigg is known as "the toughest man in the Civil Service," has had 26 years of it, mostly in finance, is vicious toward inefficiency and red tape. He was private secretary to Winston Churchill when the latter was Chancellor of the Exchequer, once maintained three angry weeks of silence with the Chancellor over a question of policy. Churchill finally broke the silence with: "James, you might at least treat me as an equal...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Henry Judah Mikell, 68, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Atlanta, Chancellor of the University of the South; of a heart ailment; in Atlanta...
Even if the Coalitionists do succeed in ousting Rex Tugwell from the Governor's chair, he has another to sit in. Before President Roosevelt appointed him Governor, his good friend Muñoz Marin made him Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico (TIME, Aug. 18). The University has never accepted his resignation. As Governor, he draws $10,000 a year; as Chancellor, he would...
...last week's amazing victory over Fordham, this season had been Pitt's worst since 1903. The victory was manna for Chancellor Bowman...