Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both theory and business life. After more than a century devoted to the elaboration . . . and the technique of banking and commercial credit, designed to fit the industrial revolution, we now stand on the brink of another revolution in economic science and economic life, scarcely inferior to its predecessor. If I have succeeded in laying the foundations for a structure devoted to appraising the real meaning of this revolution, I shall be well content to see the stately edifice of the future built up by more skillful hands...
...Ambassador was Dr. Otto Wiedfeldt, who incurred some sharp criticism when he refused to lower the German flag to half mast on the occasion of ex-President Woodrow Wilson's death. The second was Baron von Maltzan, who, although starting his diplomatic mission under the cloud of his predecessor, finally had achieved conspicuous success and popularity at the time of his death?an event which occasioned nationwide sympathy and sorrow...
...other "mayors" of Indianapolis were one Joseph Hogue and one Walter Myers. They contended that, by Mayor Duvall's conviction, his election in 1925 was voided. Joseph Hogue claimed office on the ground that he was City Comptroller in the administration of John L. Duvall's immediate predecessor, the late Lew Shank. Walter Myers claimed office because he ran second to John L. Duvall in the 1925 election...
...week was Dwight Whitney Morrow, who required little entertaining so busy was he calling around in officialdom to learn all he could about his new post of U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Mr. Morrow took his oath, talked much with the President, heard that he was praised when his predecessor, James Rockwell Sheffield, called on his host...
...were to be found exhibits of tickets, travel-folders, timetables, trunks, baggage, Pullman cai's, Pullman-car china, antique wooden rails, tiny reproductions of modern electric engines; collections of new and old railroad watches, telegraph instruments, telephones, canal boats, pictures of locomotives. Also a rickety-looking rod, the predecessor and progenitor of telegraph poles...