Word: chancellorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call to the Lord High Chancellorship another "sound lawyer," Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg. But Sir Douglas is much more than a sound lawyer with a greater legal earning power than any Britisher except Sir John Simon...
...adjutant rushed to the telephone. Too late. Prince Max had already announced at Berlin on his own responsibility the abdication of Wilhelm II both as Emperor and King. Completely terrified by the mob, Prince Max officially turned over the Imperial Chancellorship to onetime saddlemaker Ebert, leader of the Social Democratic Party, subsequently elected 1st President of the Reich...
...votes. But there were 152 "abstentions." There lay the rub. Those who abstained were the 131 Socialists and 21 Deputies of the Economic Union, a minor-party bloc. Henceforth the Herr Chancellor must continue to curry favor with these "benevolent abstainers," as he did throughout his first chancellorship last year. The German party situation continued muddled...
President von Hindenburg was generally credited in despatches last week with having quelled the strife among German party leaders sufficiently to allow Acting Chancellor Luther to resume the chancellorship at the head of a tolerably workable minority Government...
Last week, Convocation met to elect a Chancellor. The Chancellorship, an honorary position of great dignity, became vacant on the death of Lord Curzon (TIME, Mar. 30). It was offered to Lord Milner, but he died before he could be installed (TIME, May 25). It was then decided to hold an election; and it appeared likely that the Earl of Oxford and Asquith-Premier H. H. Asquith, possibly the most distinguished of living Oxonians-would be chosen...