Word: chancellorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Party), Bavarian People's Party (mainly Catholic Monarchists). Dr. Jarres is 51 years of age, a lawyer by profession and from 1914 to 1923 Mayor of Duisberg. Late in 1923, he became Minister of the Interior in the Stresemann Government and held the same post and the Vice Chancellorship last year in the Marx Government. Upon the advent of Chancellor Luther to power, he once again became Mayor of Duisberg...
...learned in the late war, that of hiding military equipment under a pleasing mantle of twigs and greenery, seems not to have been forgotten. It may be only a coincidence that at the same time that the name of the fiery old Grand Admiral von Tirpitz is mentioned for chancellorship by the German Nationalist Party, news of a peculiarly pacific character is circulated on the doings of the erstwhile Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, the figure-head of the Monarchists, who is said to have enrolled for a series of agricultural lectures at Breslau University...
This Cabinet is virtually the same as that of ex-Chancellor Gustav Stresemann, the only changes being in the Ministers of Food, Economy and Justice and, of course, in the Chancellorship. Dr. Marx, although an old politician, is not reputed to be a strong man, and, if the Cabinet lasts, the power in Germany will remain precisely where it was during the last Government, i. e., in the hands of Stresemann, Jarres and General von Seeckt, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichwehr. It follows as an unavoidable corollary that the policy of the present Government will not be changed...
President Ebert, unable to dissolve the Reichstag and hold an election owing to the disturbed condition of the country, found himself in a dilemma. He offered the vacant Chancellorship in turn to Herr von Kardorff, Dr. Hergt and Dr. Heinrich F. Albert; all refused. Finally, the President wrote to Dr. Albert: "It having become obviously impossible at this time to form a Government on the basis of a parliamentary majority, I must ask you to override the scruples and hesitation which you previously expressed to me and to form a Cabinet...
...Chancellorship of Oxford is an honorary post, now held by the Marquis Curzon. The Vice Chancellor is selected for a period of years from among the heads of the various colleges. He is the chief disciplinary officer, is really a super-military police of the Oxford lanes...