Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...river of such magnitude, Their Belgian Majesties must have given many a thought to the cold, relentless businessman who first exploited good Mother Congo and her Blackamoors as his hirelings, slaves and strumpets. The strumpeteer was King Leopold II of the Belgians (1835-1909), detested uncle and immediate predecessor of beloved King Albert I. Uncle Leopold went wickedly a-travel-ing when he was Crown Prince, to India, to China, to Japan and home around Africa, with a momentous visit to Mother Congo. Memories of Congoland germinated in the shrewd brain of Uncle Leopold and flowered when he became King...
Senator Mosconi is not, like his predecessor, a self made man or a titan of private finance. But he has served the new Feudal Duce with ready obedience as Prefect of Triest; and he was recently Royal Commissioner to the Venetian province ceded to Italy by Austria-Hungary, after the War-a province wherein the Mosconi were granted lands and certain Hungarian titles in the 16th Century...
Professor Martelli's predecessor, Signor Giuseppe Belluzzo was "rotated" over to be Minister of Public Instruction, while the former incumbent of that post, Signor Pietro Fedele, was sacked...
...theatre notes and book reviews are handled in a pleasing and capable manner. The theatre notes deserve particular praise. Mr. Page is following in admirable style the high standards set by his predecessor in this department...
Another name for Senate Bill 3555 was the Surplus Control Act and another, as everyone knows, was the McNary-Haugen Bill, and another, according to some advisers of the U. S. Farmer, was "Salvation." The name finally applied to it by President Coolidge, as to its predecessor of last year, was, in effect, "Monkey Busi-ness...