Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lines of business. Had they not taken this vow in 1920, the then Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, would probably have sued them for breach of the trust laws. Trust-busting having become so unfashionable (TIME, Feb. 23, BUSINESS), it seemed unlikely that Attorney General Sargent would execute his predecessor's threat...
Pressed by the Farmers' National Council and other lobbyists, the Department of Justice filed a complaint against the Armour-Morris merger. The packers insisted that the merger had been negotiated with the implied consent of the late Secretary, Henry C. Wallace, Mr. Jardine's predecessor. Government counsel denied this, insisted that Mr. Jardine should rule against the merger as a violation of the Packers and Stockyards...
...Each revival," continued Professor Whitehead, "touches a lower peak than its predecessor, and each period of slackness a lower depth. The average curve marks a steady fall in religious tone. In some countries the interest in religion is higher than in others. But in those countries where the interest is relatively high, it falls as the generations pass. Religion is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life...
...went well at Lexington," the CRIMSON's predecessor relates, "but the President and the northwest wind--the latter failing to please because it did blow, and the former because he didn't--but both seem to be unaccountable to any human authority. . . . Our nation's President carried off his one great role of sphinx-like and dignified silence with great effect. We believe that he was not observed to smile during the whole course of the day, except, indeed, when a Harvard cheer saluted him, given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering. He then gracefully removed...
...immediate effect of the Warren controversy. Some held that Mr. Coolidge would lose in public esteem because he allowed the Senate to get the better of him, because he allowed it to be shown that he could not control the new Senate any better than he could its predecessor. Others believed that it would strengthen him to have antagonized the Senate, especially since the people would feel that the Senate had played politics, been hypercritical about Mr. Warren and entirely uncritical about Mr. Sargent. Others predicted that all breaches would be repaired and the clash forgotten before Congress assembled again...