Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a page (ten-year-old Andrew Chaundy, son of an Oxford fellow) holding his train. Trailing him, in red, white & blue Oxford gowns, were a British delegation and a group of Harvardmen who had studied or taught at Oxford, among them Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter. Lord Halifax, as Chancellor of Oxford University, took President Conant's chair and to the surprise of his audience opened an unprecedented Oxford convocation on foreign soil. The oldest U.S. university turned over its campus to the oldest British university. Purpose: to give President Roosevelt an Oxford degree, a doctorate of civil...
...Power and Glory. Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert, son of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany, was born in 1859, three and one-half years before Bismarck became Chancellor. Bismarck soon weaned him away from his none-too-doting parents, persuaded his Emperor-Grandfather to make him a Lieutenant of Infantry at the age of ten. Bismarck had him riding a horse at twelve in the victory parade when Wilhelm I celebrated the conquest of France...
...became Kaiser at 29, after his ailing father had ruled for 99 days. Determined to rule in his own right, he dismissed Bismarck two years later, in 1890. Historians blame his dropping of the canny old Chancellor for the fate that ultimately humbled Germany, and certainly Wilhelm's arrogance and indiscretion made him many enemies. He got huffy with his Uncle Bertie (Edward VII of Great Britain) after his father's funeral, and in 1896 enraged all Britain by sending a telegram of sympathy to the Boer leader, Oom Paul Kruger. He refused to renew the Reinsurance Treaty...
...Germany's Minister to Austria when in 1933 Adolf Hitler climbed into power. Dr. Rieth stayed on in Vienna, was soon knee-deep in Nazi intrigue. After the assassination by Nazi gunmen of Austria's brave little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Minister Rieth was recalled to Berlin, replaced by his good friend Franz von Papen...
...declared that Hitler "did not ask me to hand over our fleet to him. Everyone knows-and the English better than anyone-that I will never hand it over. The Chancellor did not ask me for any colonial territory. He did not ask me to declare war on England...