Word: chancellor
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Though Jones was the hero, Pitt's victory was sweetest for John Gabbert Bowman, its 64-year-old chancellor. When Educator Bowman became head of the university in 1921, he discovered that alumni seemed more interested in a better football team than better teachers. Alumni insisted on building a bowl seating 70,000, getting one of the best football coaches money could buy (Jock Sutherland), and getting players much the same way. In the early '30s, Pitt football teams became fabulously powerful. Rival coaches whispered that Pitt players, besides getting free tuition and books, received a salary...
Irked at the unfavorable press that ensued, Chancellor Bowman first engineered the dissolution of the Alumni Athletic Council, put Pitt football under faculty control. Then, three years ago, after the freshman football team went on strike be cause they were asked to work for their pay (then $48 a month), he introduced the Code Bowman. Stricter than most college codes - even those of the Big Ten and the Big Three - the Code Bowman stipulates that no coach may approach a high-school athlete before his entrance to Pitt, that athletes may receive no scholarship except those awarded for scholastic attainments...
...names that stud the Churchill Cabinet-Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, War Secretary Captain David Margesson and others-seem to many Britons touched with the odor of Munich. Last week the growth of discontent in Britain could be measured in figures. A Gallup poll recorded that only 29% of the citizens polled felt that their country was making the most of its opportunities, only 44% were satisfied with the Government's war conduct. (Even after the disaster of Crete 58% were satisfied with the war effort...
When Bruening faced a budget deficit, the Reichstag refused to support his demand for additional taxation. In desperation, the bespectacled Chancellor asked President von Hindenburg to issue an emergency edict under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution...
...weary Chancellor turned increasingly to decree-laws. To diminish unemployment, he asked the aged Hindenburg for a decree chopping up the Junker lauded estates and resettling jobless workers on them. The President, dominated by monocled aristocrats like Kurt von Schleicher, demanded the resignation of the "agrarian Bolshevik...