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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...
...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...
...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...