Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southerners. Finally, despite protests from the entire student body and a sympathy strike staged by half his teammates, the Negro co-captain of the track team was ruled out from taking a trip to a major meet in Washington, D. C., last week. The surface result of the Chancellor's action, besides its effect on the Negroes concerned, was the expulsion of seven students who distributed a petition of opposition. The dangers of such a policy, however, run far deeper than this...
Patter Songs from Gilbert & Sullivan (Nelson Eddy, baritone, with chorus and orchestra conducted by Robert Armbruster; Columbia: 6 sides; $2.75). Baritone Eddy's fans-but not Savoyards-will forgive his rather apologetic, Yankeefied impersonations of the Mikado, Jack Point, the Lord Chancellor, John Wellington Wells, Major General Stanley, First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. The last one sounds like an odd, unconscious parody of President Roosevelt speechmaking...
...British Government backed up Dr. Aasgaard's belief by announcing last week that Britain's churches, unlike almost everybody else, will not have to pay compulsory insurance premiums on their property (TIME, March 10). His Majesty's Government, said Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, will pay the premiums instead, thus insuring the rebuilding of bombed-out churches, chapels, parsonages, parish houses. This was good news indeed to British churchmen, who have already seen thousands of churches bombed, including 200 Methodist and 114 Baptist in the London area alone...
Next day the body of the man who made life livable for diabetics lay in state in the University of Toronto's Convocation Hall, where almost 25 years ago he kneeled to receive his medical degree from the university chancellor. Dozens of his colleagues, thousands of Toronto citizens filed past. An unending stream of messenger boys delivered tributes from all over the continent. In the afternoon Dr. Banting was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery...
Karpovitch stated that Stalin feels too weak to oppose Hitler now, despite his desire for a stalemate, concluding that Russia must give way to the Nazi terms during any crisis that can be expected in the near-future. A question period followed the address. Ex-Chancellor Breuning plans to speak at the next meeting of the Club...