Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That afternoon, still another Peruvian -Luis Elguera, chancellor of Peru's Santiago consulate-general-visited the statues. Over the protests of the Chilean carabinero on duty, he boldly made off with the Apristas' star-shaped wreaths. Discovering the theft shortly, the Apristas marched off to protest, first at the Ministry of National Defense, then to the office of Mayor Rafael Pacheco. Thundered the mayor, who had authorized their ceremonies: "An insult to O'Higgins and San Martin...
...Chancellor (Oxford's rotating presidency), stood for Parliament as an "Independent Progressive," and in 1945 became a Labor peer...
...British Cabinet Offices: "They sat at blue-black, baize-covered tables in a hollow square, all looking inward and all with their backs to the wall." At one morning session, scheduled to begin at 10:30, a Commonwealth representative arrived ten minutes late. "Good evening," said Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, with a frosty smile. "Good afternoon," was the reply...
Delicate Distinctions. Five days before the King's emergency proclamation, a grim House of Commons listened glumly while Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps read from eight pages of foolscap. Almost every one of the 20 minutes' worth was bad news. Britain's dollars were going down the drain too fast; $261,950,000 had been used up from the end of March to the end of June. Only $1,636,180,000 was left-well below the $2 billion reserve the British had considered the minimum for safety...
...really wanted to come to the U.S. When he went from Lambarene to Giinsbach last October for a visit, he found at least six invitations to address Goethe bicentennial events, but he was so tired that he refused them all. Then from the University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Hutchins, chairman of the U.S. Goethe Bicentennial Foundation, came a persuader that set Dr. Schweitzer to brooding. The foundation would make the Lambarene hospital a gift of 2,000,000 francs ($6,100), Chairman Hutchins promised, if Dr. Schweitzer would come...