Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intimate of Lord Beaverbrook. As such he replaced Economics Adviser Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's Man Friday and chief traveling companion on the great appeasement junkets. A scathing critic of Munich, Mr. Bracken since break of war used his Financial News to harass the now ousted Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon-created Viscount Simon last week-for not spending fast enough on British armament. Conservative Party whips used to call Brendan Bracken "The Red-Headed Beast," last week found him suddenly installed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister...
When Alexander Loudon, Netherlands Minister to Washington, heard reports that his countrymen were angry with his Queen for fleeing to Britain, he indignantly ejaculated: ''The fate of the former Chancellor of Austria gives an idea of what might have befallen Queen Wilhelmina. Of what use is Dr. Schuschnigg to Austria...
...Baxter went further and discussed academic freedom: "Chancellor Capen of the University of Buffalo . . . before the Association of American University Professors . . . referred to the 'exhibitionists' and 'mountebanks' in the academic world 'who to feed their own vanity, recklessly stake the profession's most precious and hard-won possession'." Baxter's remaining discussion of "the danger that the teacher will seek to impose his own political beliefs on his students" merits study...
...London scheming, thrusting Max sold to increasingly doddering old Andrew Bonar Law some life insurance, became the Prime Minister's closest friend, later "Canadian eye witness" at the front during World War 1 and in 1918 Minister of In formation and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1917 The Beaver began making a huge Fleet Street fortune by giving London a cockeyed version of low-brow U. S. journalism. "I have all the money any man can want!" Lord Beaver brook likes to boast, slapping his trouser pocket for dramatic emphasis while conservative Britons shudder...
...last week, having moved its universities 1,000 to 2,000 miles, beyond reach of Japanese guns, China had virtually completed its great trek. In Chungking, where Nankai University's foresighted Chancellor Chang Poling had started to build several years before the Japanese invasion, were fully equipped, new greystone preparatory and postgraduate schools. At Kunming was great new Southwest Associated University, with 90 buildings. To these and other centres China had moved 77 universities all told. Out of its pre-war total of 108 colleges and universities, it has saved 91, added four new ones...