Word: chancellorship
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Finally, all dopesters were convinced that President Scott, able money-raiser, will be exalted into a chancellorship and brisk Bob Hutchins, as president, will actively direct Chicago's dream of creating "the greatest University centre...
Last winter, after the Chancellorship had several times eluded Adolf Hitler's pudgy grasp, Herr Strasser, then National Organizer of the Nazi Party, decided that the fumble was likely to be permanent. Ambitious, he called secretly upon the then Chancellor, sly Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, famed as "His Field Grey Eminence." Somehow or other Leader Hitler learned what Strasser and Schleicher were plotting, summoned Nazi storm troop leaders and Deputies from all over Germany to an historic Party meeting in Berlin. "Comrades," said the Leader gravely, "according to information in my possession Strasser told von Schleicher that...
...disappearance of Agrarian Leader Franz Winkler as Vice Chancellor; the shelving of old General Karl Vaugoin from the Ministry of Defense to the Directorship of the State Railways; and the shifting of the Heimwehr's hard-hitting Major Fey from the Ministry of Public Security to the Vice Chancellorship. Agrarian Winkler was shelved for his growing opposition to the entire Dollfuss program. General Vaugoin (generally credited with rebuilding the Austrian army), for listening too sympathetically to offers of Socialist aid. If Austria must have a dictator, Engelbert Dollfuss was determined...
Socialite, luxury-loving Franz von Papen is no Nazi. In the Hitler Cabinet he keeps his Vice Chancellorship (a decorative sinecure) chiefly because he is a Papal Chamberlain and because Germany's new Nazi masters suppose him to be an ''intimate friend" of His Holiness Pope Pius XI. All last week Herr von Papen was enjoying himself in Rome. He loves nothing quite so much as supping in state at a Cardinal's Palace with twinkling candles on the table and viands of the best. Every day Vegetarian Hitler called up to ask how the negotiations...
Such an alliance would crimp if not permanently wreck the French military supremacy of Europe. At the very beginning of the Hitler Chancellorship it was an idea with which Il Duce toyed pleasantly. What he did not realize was the speed with which Hitlerite groups were spawning in southeastern Europe. Austrian Nazis had already outdistanced the older Austrian Fascist group, the Heimwehr, as a political force. They were springing up in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, even Rumania, and all taking their orders from Handsome Adolf. In Fulda three weeks ago a conference of German bishops announced that good Catholics need no longer...