Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election, in which the Nazis finally won, he contributed some 3,000,000 marks ($1,200,000) toward the Hitler campaign fund. In early January, 1933, at the Cologne home of one of Herr Thyssen's friends, Adolf Hitler had met Franz von Papen, onetime Chancellor, and concluded a political alliance. Old President von Hindenburg, apprised that Papen's Nationalists as well as the big industrialists were behind Hitler, gave in at last and appointed Hitler Chancellor...
Highlighting the afternoon session is Heinrich Bruening, former Chancellor of Germany and now a lecturer in Government. Of all speakers on the war situation Bruening has been the most sought after this fall because of his particular capability of prognosticating the economic set-up within Germany as a result of his experience, particularly with agricultural economy, as chancellor and before...
...bother to salute, remove pipes or cigarets from mouths, or hands from pockets. The Royal Navy appreciates what tough work it is they do, having a mine-sweeping fleet of its own. Publicly discovered last week was the fact that Robin Inskip, 22, son of Viscount Caldecote (Lord Chancellor in the Chamberlain War Cabinet), was aboard the mine sweeper Aragonite when she was blown out of water last fortnight with serious injury to four men. Safe home in London with his family, Robin Inskip chirped: "A bit of a shakeup...
...Prosperous Britons were pelting the Treasury last week with a patriotic shower of valuables to help win the war. Voluntarily they sent silver heirlooms, wedding and engagement rings, gold coins and even historic strings of family pearls. This mood of sacrifice was die-hard Britain at her best, but Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, while giving thanks, was obliged to announce that Britain can meet the mounting cost of World War II only if the whole population submits to "the most fearful sacrifices, some of which we have hardly begun to dream...
...John implied that the already crushing British income tax, which long ago ceased to be purely a "soak-the-rich" proposition, will have to be extended downward from the white-collar to the soiled-collar class. Britain is spending half her national income on the war, the Chancellor warned, yet even with armament plants going full blast 1,400,000 workers are still unemployed. Sir John, with typical British forthrightness, declared that a war of this magnitude cannot be fought on any easy assumption that it will not depress the existing standard of living in Britain and elsewhere...