Word: ex-chancellor
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Fortress of Landsberg, about 36 miles west of Munich, by the Bavarian Government for his share in the recent putsch (TIME, Nov. 19). His trial is not likely to take place until after Christmas. Recent despatches report that he is critically ill with brain, fever. Dr. Joseph Wirth, ex-Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs from May, 1921, to November, 1922, with the exception of a brief period, was reported to be dying in consequence of a stroke of apoplexy. Ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria tried to coalesce the Nationalists under General Ludendorff and the Bavarian Nationalists under...
...discussion of the differences between the American and English constitutional systems, and he took occasion to point out that in the latter country there was no check whatsoever upon the Executive except by Parliament, while here the judges are masters of the executive" and of Congress." As reported, the ex-Chancellor's speech was neither epigrammatic nor provocatory (as it generally is), but he succeeded in getting several newspapers to take the rather impossible position that the difference between the two systems " is not so great after...
...Robert Horne, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, was Chairman and he had a good deal to say on celibacy. First of all he proposed the toast of the Prince of Wales, "the best and most popular bachelor." Second, he toasted " perpetual celibacy." Third, he told some stories...
Another mystery: Herr Hugo Stinnes (master of coke) and Dr. Wilhelm Cuno (ex-Chancellor) "went to London." That is all that is known...
...McKenna's refusal, therefore, puts the Government in a difficulty. Sir Robert Home, an ex-Chancellor, was approached, but it is understood that he has again refused the post. The name of Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, has been mentioned in connection with the vacant post, but nothing definite is known. Austen Chamberlain (halfbrother to Neville) is the most likely man if he can be brought back into the Conservative fold...