Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador Henry Berenger, Senator of France, appeared at the White House and presented his credentials as Ambassador and the papers recalling his predecessor, M. Daeschner. The Ambassador declared: "France is resolved to settle the debts contracted for her defense." And the President replied: "There should be no insuperable difficulty...
...newspapers of this country. This notice was confined to a small piece in a New York paper saying that American property was endangered and that United States destroyers had sailed to protect it. Three successive French military governors have been sent to Syria, each one worse than his predecessor. Recently the home government realizing its mistake established a civil government...
...elevator before the policemen chatting in the lobby had recognized him. "Where is the Police Commissioner's office?" He was let out at the second floor, "strode vigorously" down a long corridor, "pushed aside a heavy door," and went into the Commissioner's office beyond. He stayed with his predecessor 17 minutes, and strode out. Photographers were waiting for him. "Will you pose?" He hesitated, nodded. "Make it snappy now!" Reporters began to ask questions: "Have you been sworn in as Police Commissioner?" "No, I have not." "Will you be here tomorrow?" "Yes." He hurried down the stairs with...
Evangelist Carlyle B. Hayes may never live in the category of the major saints. Neither does Savanarola, his predecessor, the famed religious man of Florence. Yet both have done their duty to a certain conception of right. Each has piled the vanities and conceits of his time upon the flames, and prayed...
Alan Mowbray in the role made famous by Holbrook Blinn is no less effective, one suspects, than his more famous predecessor. The old uncle is usually amusing but not always convincing in the hands of C. Wordley Hulse. And Morris Carnovsky, as Morgan Pell, the unfortunate husband, is required by the author to confound all plausibility by announcing to his wife that dogs who do not know whom they belong to should be beaton, and wives as well...