Word: chancellorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he must beware of many, inside and out of Germany, who still fear German militarism, he moved surely as ever, but more quickly than usual. On Monday morning last week he visited President Heuss. tendered his own resignation as Foreign Minister (a job he has combined with the Chancellorship for four years), and nominated two key new ministers: ¶To be Foreign Minister: his friend, Heinrich von Brentano (see box). ¶To be Minister for Defense: small (5 ft. 4 in.) Trade Unionist Theodor Blank, 49, since 1950 head of a shadow defense ministry called "Bureau Blank," which...
...however, he lacks the fullness of power that Thomas must also have throughout. For "Murder in the Cathedral" is not a play of growth. Thomas does not suddenly seize on the power which he takes to his death. He had it, Eliot explains, over since he resigned the Chancellorship to devote his whole being to the Church. In the first act, when he dismisses the temptors who came to lure him from his purpose, Gaydos was too much the prig. He tends also to overuse facial gestures. But in the death scene, when faced by four drunken assassins, he brings...
Several into One. The Press published its first book, a Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, attributed to St. Jerome, just a year after Caxton printed his first book in 1477. By the time William (later Archbishop) Laud took over the chancellorship of Oxford in 1629, it was printing such titles as Captain John Smith's Map of Virginia, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Bacon's Advancement of Learning...
...officials jittered in alarm. It was bad enough to have a political controversy intruded into the election. But to make matters worse, it was the first time since 1847, when Queen Victoria's beloved Prince Albert won in a squeak over the popular Earl of Powis, that the chancellorship had ever been contested...
...trouble is a tired heart," said 61-year-old Sir Stafford Cripps last week as he resigned the Chancellorship of the Exchequer. "I suppose," he went on, "that the stress and strain of the past twelve years has had its effect. I suspected that all was not right twelve months ago and now this has been confirmed by my doctors...