Word: filled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Privy Seal James Henry Thomas ("Privy Seal Jim"), Minister in Charge of Unemployment, told the House of Commons that "by next year our trouble will be not how to get customers in Canada but how to get enough ships to take our coal and goods there fast enough to fill their orders...
Four Harvard alumni have been appointed to fill vacancies on the Harvard Fund Council, governing board of the Fund. They are F. M. Alger '99 of Detroit, Michigan; Dr. E. G. Stillman '08 of New York City; P. C. Cabot '21 of Boston; and Lawrence Coolidge '27 of Boston. Thus far in 1929 the Fund has received contributions from 5,698 alumni; it is closing its fourth year of operation...
...oversight of Who's Who (your social register) is another proof of its unimportance. He would certainly merit mention as much as the cinemactors and politicians that fill its pages...
Last year when Artur Bodanzky resigned as German opera conductor of Manhattan's Metropolitan, his successor was immediately announced to be one Joseph Rosenstock of Wiesbaden. Few had ever heard of such a person, all marveled that a comparative unknown was to fill the most important post in the world's most important operatic organization...
...since the present Pope entered the Vatican has the College of Cardinals had its full quota. To fill the vacancies would be: 1) expensive, since Cardinal allowances (except for U. S. Cardinals) are paid by the Pope; 2) embarrassing, for there are many more candidates than places; 3) perhaps impolitic, for already the non-Italian Cardinals outnumber...