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...outgoing President of Brazil ordinarily presides when the incoming President is sworn. Last week, however, the outgoing President, Washington Luis (whose term expires Nov. 15) was still in jail, closely guarded by his revolutionary captors when it came time to induct the new provisional President, Getulio Vargas, No. i revolutionist (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.}. In these circumstances there was no swearing in but a five-minute ceremony: Dr. Vargas signed a paper declaring that he is President. Nations which recognized him three days later: Italy, Portugal (Brazilians speak Portuguese), Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay. Two more days passed before...
Fordham University. Jesuit colleges select and induct their presidents quietly, without public fanfare. In the refectory of Fordham University (New York), last week, an order from the Very Rev. Vlodimir Ledochowski, S.J., Superior General at Rome, was read at mealtime. Rev. William J. Duane, S.J., 63, having completed the six years in office permitted by canon law, got up from the head of the table and bowed to Rev. Aloysius G. Hogan, S.J., 37, who took his place. Next day Father Duane sailed for Rome. It is not expected that he will do any more educational work...
...shiny new desk. He sat down at the desk. Officials swarmed in to pump his hand, felicitate him, lead him out of the office through rooms filled with craning clerks, staring stenographers. Thus did Dean John Thomas Madden of the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts & Finance, induct himself as the third President of Alexander Hamilton Institute (correspondence business school...
...with hat to match. In sombre contrast was the Cross Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve new Knights of the Grand Cross of the Bath...
...effect of these developments was virtually to quash the possibility that a Spanish or Brazilian veto might again cause trouble when the League Assembly meets to induct Germany next September...