Word: chancellor
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...request that the committee and Brown Chancellor Charles C. Tillinghast hear the presentation follows a week of student protest against the chancellor's decision to grant control of the presidential search to a selection committee composed entirely of corporation members...
More than 1500 Brown students demonstrated against the chancellor's decision last weekend on the university green while student council members met with Tillinghast. The council members presented proposals for structuring the selection committee to include students, and a 2500-signature student petition supporting the council's position...
...whose background reflects that of most Labor voters. The son of a Royal Navy chief petty officer, Callaghan quit school at 15 to support his widowed mother. He entered politics through union elections, eventually rose through Labor's ranks to hold all three of the major Cabinet posts: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Office Secretary and, since 1974, Foreign Secretary, where he renegotiated Britain's Common Market membership with finesse...
...term as Chancellor was less distinguished. Casting himself as a sort of monetary St. George, he led the costly and ultimately unsuccessful struggle to stave off devaluation of the British pound during the first Wilson government in 1967. At the time, one of his Cabinet colleagues complained: "Jim was a pushover for the treasury mandarins. He simply did not have the intellectual equipment to overrule their traditionalist advice." But Callaghan has a shrewd sense of grass-roots opinion, and in the words of one junior minister, he "knows what the ordinary bloke will wear and not wear." He enjoys more...
...testy European monetary meeting Monday, an angry French Finance Minister Jean-Pierre Fourcade in effect accused the British of precipitating a crisis. He charged London with deliberately letting the pound drop in order to stimulate exports at the expense of Britain's trading partners-a charge that British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey denied. Fourcade also made a last-ditch attempt to keep the franc in the so-called European snake -an arrangement that bound France, West Germany, the Benelux countries, Sweden, Norway and Denmark to hold their currencies within a 4.5% range of fluctuation against each other...