Word: chancellor
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...citizen, ex-German Thomas Mann is a citizen-to-be. Since Adolf Hitler began to liquidate German scholarship in 1933, every ship from Europe has borne eminent scholars to the U. S. Today many of them teach in U. S. colleges and universities. At Harvard are ex-Chancellor Heinrich Brüning; famed Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; renowned City Planner Martin Wagner; Werner Jaeger, one of the world's most eminent classical scholars...
TIME, May 13, under Reds, Labor and War, says: "... Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the British Trades Union Congress . . . agreed to a proposal by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon that pay rises in Britain be stopped. . . . These things caused the London Daily Worker to publish a series of articles . . ." on the basis of which the Worker was sued for libel...
...from the Treasury bench rose round, pink-faced Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood-known to the House as "The Cherub." In a clear tenor voice he piped: "What I want is cash." And for the next 91 minutes, speaking from notes written in his own hand, taped up in little bundles, one for each phase of his speech, he presented Great Britain with the heaviest budget in her history...
When Poland fell last September, according to accounts from Polish refugees, soldiers of the Red Army seized Prince Janusz and a half-dozen of his family (including married daughters) and shipped them to prison in Moscow. On hearing of this, Queen Elena of Italy, a family connection, appealed to Chancellor Hitler. He ordered the German Ambassador in Moscow, Count Friedrich Werner von Schulenberg, to try to free the distinguished Poles...
Across the Atlantic, Canada prepared to receive Frau Engelbert Dollfuss, widow of the Nazi-murdered Austrian Chancellor, quizzed but finally admitted Grade Fields...