Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Barton Payne, Secretary of the Interior under Woodrow Wilson, and immediate predecessor of Albert B. Fall, would be, it was intimated, the choice of George E. Brennan, Democratic boss of Illinois...
...After declaring that the best way of ensuring peace was to prepare for peace and denouncing the maxim of "Trust in God and keep your powder dry," William Leach, Under Secretary of State for Air, announced that the Government would carry on its predecessor's policy of expanding the Air Force. "Shame!" cried a Labor member. Mr. Leach said that what was needed were "new excavations to raise the lid from the sarcophagus of the New Testament." Major General J. E. B. Seely (Liberal) retorted: "If the Empire is to be defended by Sermons on the Mount, God help...
...present instance, the Republican Club waxes as vehement and conspicuous as its predecessor which flourished in the day of Harrison and Cleveland, the Democrats will have to look to their standards. In the 1980's a mock election was held in the College. Harrison polled 1114 votes to Cleveland's 851, and feeling ran so high that the Graduates' Magazine excused it by saying "That no incompatibility existed between one's membership in Harvard College and a dignified participation in political affairs, even in a strictly partisan way." Evidently, from this, some liberalist, best-man sentiment...
These two "friendly enemies" had in their turn a predecessor in the pre-Civil War days which was one body and known as "Parliament, or Debating Society. Its arguments on slavery often served to heat an otherwise chilly room by means of abundant, fervid productions. Just how warm the rivalry between the present parties will turn out to be, remains to be seen, but it is doubtful whether, lacking the lubrication which was indispensable in the older clubs, the speeches will have that old time flavor, and fiushed conviction...
...President paid tribute to Ambassador Mayer, Dr. von Hoesch's predecessor, and spoke favorably upon the impression which Dr. von Hoesch had made in Paris as Chargé d'Affaires and said that it was fortunate that he assumed his position "personally informed .regarding the thoughts and the will of France...