Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week's issue of Liberty, nickel weekly, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, the 260th successor to St. Peter, Bishop of Rome, might well have been somewhat astonished. He would have found, impudently set forth, only trite commonplaces about himself. The only little known fact concerned his predecessor, Pius X, namely that the "undergarments" of the late Pontiff "were badly worn out and patched in many places...
...another Iowa banker and American Legionary, Col. Charles Burton Robbins of Cedar Rapids. Aged 50, Col. Robbins served against the Spaniards, was wounded in the head. He has an insurance business (Cedar Rapids Life). He has been a judge. As able a Big-Desk man as his young predecessor he is more the type of man who will stay at a Big Desk-directing the National Guard, organizing the Reserves, mobilizing industry, ordnance, munitions as provided by the National Defense Act. (TIME, Jan. 9). When younger men go off to put "experience in Washington" to their own good uses...
...words of moving light that shine down upon the theatre district. The mayors amateur standing is as yet untainted by any connection with rotarianism. He maybe "the most oppressed man ever to seek this high office. "But no would be Menckens dare mock at him for, as his predecessor in office admits he has the right on his side...
...Democrat, the Republican Legislature of New York yearned to conduct this inquiry. In Manhattan, Mayor James J. Walker yearned to conduct the inquiry because President Connolly had opposed Mayor Walker's election, being a political brother of famed John F. Hylan, Mayor Walker's old-style predecessor...
...Governor Edwin P. Morrow, Mr. Fields' Republican predecessor, did not have time to record all his last-minute pardons in the executive journal. For days after Mr. Fields took office, convicts' relatives poured in bearing Morrow pardons. Some years ago, while Kentucky's Governor and Lieutenant Governor were out of the state for three days, acting Governor Thomas A. Combs issued scores of pardons, including one to a felon who had pleaded guilty...