Word: elected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succeed to his seat in the Senate were mentioned, but as yet there seems no candidate to succeed Oscar W. Underwood-Underwood the conservative, Underwood who opposed Prohibition, Underwood who had little liking for the Democratic advances to the insurgent Republicans in the last Congress. Perhaps Alabama may elect a Senator as eloquently verbose as Heflin, or a fireeater like Harrison, or a damnation-downright man like Robinson, but it is not likely that they will discover another well-poised, equably disposed, able man such as Mr. Underwood. Indeed, had he chosen to run again, he would undoubtedly have...
Last week, Convocation met to elect a Chancellor. The Chancellorship, an honorary position of great dignity, became vacant on the death of Lord Curzon (TIME, Mar. 30). It was offered to Lord Milner, but he died before he could be installed (TIME, May 25). It was then decided to hold an election; and it appeared likely that the Earl of Oxford and Asquith-Premier H. H. Asquith, possibly the most distinguished of living Oxonians-would be chosen...
There was nothing for Maine to do but accept the resignation. Dr. Little is President-elect of Michigan, putting an end to the seeming candidacy of Samuel Emory Thomason, Michigan '04, Vice-President of the Chicago Daily Tribune, only other individual whose name was even mentioned in connection with the important Michigan chair (TIME, Tune...
...native of Brookline, Mass., a Harvard graduate and onetime professor, Dr. Little is just one year the junior of President-elect Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin. In 1917, he was commissioned a captain in the aviation section, reserve corps, U. S. Army; then a major in the Adjutant General's Department. For two years before he succeeded Dr. Robert J. Aley at Maine (in 1922), Dr. Little worked in the Carnegie Institute for Experimental Evolution (Long Island...
...office of Visitor is an ecclesiastical dignity of honorary importance in most cases connected with the bishopric of Oxford. The "House" and some other colleges have the right to elect their own Visitors. The King visited the "House," not as King, but as the ecclesiastical successor of Cardinal Wolsey. *Every night at 9.05 o'clock, white the scholars are in residence, "Old Tom" is tolled 101 times, the number being determined by the original number of the foundation...