Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marin engineered Dr. Tugwell's election as chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico, upped the chancellor's salary from $7,500 to $15,000. Puerto Rico's Governor Guy J. Swope resigned to take a post as Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions in Secretary Ickes' Interior Department. To succeed him, Franklin Roosevelt nominated Chancellor Tugwell...
...Rexford Guy Tugwell, one of the most trusted Brain Trusters of the First New Deal, last week got a new job: chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. Paradoxically, although it returned him to his original calling as an educator, it looked more like a step toward a political comeback...
...suave Alfred Duff Cooper, Minister since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister last year, whose suavity has suffered somewhat in defending the organization of the M.O.I. from caustic Parliamentary critics who like it as little as he does. Still in the Cabinet, Duff Cooper was given the dutiless post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, assigned to go to the Far East to report on the coordination between military, administrative and political authorities there-a job which should keep him busy for some time...
Hearing over, the board voted 10-to-5 to fire not only Dean Cocking but "Furriner" (Mississippi-born) Marvin S. Pittman, president of Georgia State Teachers College and Georgia-born J. Curtis Dixon, vice chancellor of the State University system. Said Talmadge: "Dixon was just as much tied up with the Rosenwald Fund as Cocking was." Next day, with pixie logic, Talmadge chose as Cocking's successor a furriner from Maryland, Dr. Edwin Pusey, who is also a trustee of a Negro school in Georgia (Fort Valley) supported by Rosenwald Funds...
...Britain's potent Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is a great great great grandson of Arthur Vansittart (1691-1760), one of whose other grandsons was Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851), M.P. for 26 years and at various times Special Envoy to Denmark, Secretary to the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1810 Britain-in the midst of war with Napoleon-was off the gold standard, the price of bullion was high in terms of Bank of England notes, foreign exchange was difficult, inflation loomed. A Parliamentary Bullion Committee met, wanted to resume specie payments. But Vansittart urged...