Word: induction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three of America's oldest and finest universities tomorrow is more than just the day the Yankees play the Giants again, or the Japs slaughter the Chinese. Other exciting but more progressive events will be holding the center of the stage. For tomorrow Yale, Williams, and Cornell will induct new presidents into office with fitting ceremonies and with high expectations of continuing to develop all that is best in educational circles...
What would happen behind the scenes of the Supreme Court if its members had to induct six young New Dealers is a subject to pique reportorial imagination. Last week several laymen had the opportunity of witnessing a comparable spectacle when black-haired, round-faced John Biggs Jr. of Delaware took office as a member of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware...
...collared inauguration exactly to their taste. Some of the legislators present were in sweaters. None of their wives ventured evening dress. The King's representative, Lieut.-Governor William Legh Walsh, who once grubbed for gold as a Yukon prospector, appeared in a grey suit and blue shirt to induct as Premier the mystically magnetic Calgary High School principal whose year-old Social Credit Party has just smashed all others in Alberta, winning 56 out of a possible 63 seats in the provincial Legislature...
...long aisle of London's vast St. Paul's Cathedral one day last week slowly marched a procession which included a portly little man, young-looking despite his grey locks. To him, at the altar, a cleric said: "I, Sidney Arthur Alexander, senior canon, do induct you, Very Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, lawfully appointed dean of this church. The Lord keep your coming in and going out, now and forever...
Former Mayor Curley's method of campaigning is almost enough to induct him as unworthy of the Governorship of Massachusetts, even if no consideration is made of his record as Mayor of Boston and as a politician. Mr. Curley's tactics are similar to those of a parasite existing by living off of a large fish. In this case Mr. F. D. Roosevelt plays the part of the fish. Mr. James Roosevelt and Postmaster General Jim Farley constitute a weak kind of sticking plaster that keeps the parasite clinging to the fish. The fish, however, like real fish that carry...