Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday the BBC repeated a solemn announcement that "the Right Honorable Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer," would have something important to say at 9:15 that evening. When the hour came, Sir Stafford, in clipped, clear accents, spoke into a microphone at No. 10 Downing Street: "Good evening. I don't think I need tell you that I've just got back from the United States, where I have spent the last fortnight with the Foreign Secretary trying to work out, with our Canadian and American friends, some solution to a very serious problem...
...hold the legislative houses of the long-awaited German Federal Republic. Out of the car stepped a tall, elderly man, in sober dark suit and high, starched collar. One or two of the workmen recognized him as he passed, and nodded gravely; he responded with a grin. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor-apparent of the Federal Republic, was on his way to his office, and to one of the most momentous tasks undertaken by any man in the postwar world...
...Christian World. "A start must be made," said Adenauer when he presided last year over West Germany's constitutional assembly, "so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world." As Chancellor, at 73, he will guide a nation neither whole nor as yet quite free-still distrusted by the outside world, beset with grave economic problems, vestiges of hatred and despair...
Konrad Adenauer would be the new German Republic's first Chancellor. He will probably form a government next month in coalition with the Free Democrats; whether the Socialists would enter the coalition remained doubtful. As he viewed his victory Adenauer might feel some discomfort in the fact that just 30 years ago Germany launched another hopeful democratic experiment in the ill-fated Weimar Republic. U.S. occupation officers, pleased by the election's outcome, wished Adenauer luck; he would need...
...ever equaled Cesare Borgia's record for quick promotion. Cesare was the bastard son of Vatican Vice-Chancellor Rodrigo Borgia and his mistress Vanozza de Catanei. When he was only six, he was made Canon of Valencia. At 15, he became Bishop of Pamplona; at 16, archbishop of Valencia; at 17, a cardinal. Only the papal throne itself stood ahead of young Cardinal Borgia, but since that was now occupied by his crafty father (who had become Pope Alexander VI), the frustrated youngster started looking around for other worlds to conquer...