Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the hospital room where the wounded Corporal Hitler decided to enter politics, from the beer hall where Hitler built his Party, from the prison cell into which Hitler was thrown when the first march failed, from the window in the old Chancellery where Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of the Reich. The day's climax was a speech by Hitler himself in Berlin's Sportpalast...
Perhaps the most imposing of the items on exhibit are two Irish House of Commons Maces, made of silver gilt in London, 1765. The maces were symbols of office of the Lord Chancellor, who presided in the House of Lords, and of the Speaker of the House of Commons. This parliament might have become completely autonomous, but was abolished by the Act of Union of 1800, which united the British and Irish parliaments as one legislative body in London...
...last week that Go-between Boothby had received some $4,000 in expenses and had also had a financial interest of $96,000 in the unfreezing of certain Czech assets. This circumstance was made worse, the committee found, by the fact that Bob Boothby had "expressly protested" to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he had no financial interest in the Czech money matters he was constantly bringing before the Treasury, ostensibly on their merits...
Outstanding pieces shown are two huge silver gift ceremonial maces, once the official symbols of the office of the Lord Chancellor in the Irish Parliament, disbanded...
...message received here is signed by Ernest A. Benians, Master of St. John's College, Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University, and George Stuart Gordon, President of Magdalen College, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University...