Word: chancellorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BONN, Germany, April 7--Konrad Adenauer's decision today to surrender his West German chancellorship for the less important presidency stunned German politicians and world diplomats alike. Ludwig Erhard, 62-year-old economics minister and architect of Germany's postwar business recovery, was expected to take over next September the leadership laid down by the 83-year-old Adenauer...
...more flexible Social Democratic leaders in closer touch with the voters, and with a more pragmatic approach to practicalities. Above all, the reformers intend that the party shall not go to the people again in 1961 with Erich Ollenhauer, a two-time loser, as its candidate for the chancellorship...
Brushing off congratulations at the swearing-in ceremonies with "Yes, but this does not end my troubles," Adenauer hurried back to his study to write Schäffer that his proposal was "unsatisfactory" and that it was no longer possible to offer him the vice-chancellorship. Schäffer's Bavarian party followers rushed to Adenauer to suggest that Schäffer could be mollified if he was offered the Justice Ministry. Within minutes, Adenauer scratched off his first choice as Justice Minister, put down Schäffer's name instead. "Oh, how they make me suffer...
Unless Adenauer changed his mind at the eleventh hour, Erhard had achieved his long-cherished ambition to wield overall direction of the West German economy. Should he also land the vice-chancellorship, Erhard would emerge as the top Cabinet officer, increasing his ranking as possible successor to der Alte himself...
...Crescendo. Before accepting the chancellorship, Litchfield persuaded his trustees to agree to a long-range, $100 million fund-raising campaign. The university has already taken over the old Schenley Park Hotel, where Lillian Russell was married, and is turning it into a new student social center. It also has the seven Schenley apartment buildings, which will become dormitories. Litchfield has given his faculty a 10% raise, cut from 28 to nine the number of officers reporting to him directly, given Pitt its most streamlined administration in its 169-year history...