Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle, the first-born of the realm marched, as in many crises of Britain's turbulent history, to fulfill their destiny. So rapid was the depletion of the aristocracy, already thinned and impoverished by death and death taxes in World War I, that the new Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood decreed that for the duration death duties are payable only once if successive estate owners die in action...
...perhaps even of life itself." >Owen D. Young (at Syracuse): "I cannot say that the insistent cry of youth today-jobs, not war'-is wrong, but I can say that unless you are prepared for the second you may never have the first." >New York University's Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase: ". . . In these last tragic weeks there must have come home to every one of us a new sense of the worthwhileness of the institutions of a free civilization...
Frau Engelbert Dollfuss, widow of the Austrian Chancellor murdered in Vienna during the Nazi Putsch of July 1934, prepared to leave her cottage at Llandrindod Wells in Wales, seek refuge in Canada with her children, Eva, 10, and Rudi...
...know you suffer from insomnia, Mr. Chancellor. That is really too bad. You must surely know that one of the best and tried methods is to count. Do you want to try out a system with...
...three countries assassinated . . . four, five, six, seven . . . continue Mr. Chancellor. . . . Count your victims in Austria, 100, 200 . . . those in Spain, Germany, 100,000, 200,000. Can't you sleep? Let's continue: Your victims in Czechoslovakia, 800,000 . . . 900,000 . . . and those in Poland, 1,000,000, 2,000,000, 3,000,000 . . . victims, Mr. Chancellor. You have certainly earned the right to sleep after that. . . . You must have a tranquil conscience. Sleep well and pleasant dreams. Good night, Adolf Hitler...