Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months and one day after Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the U. S., died in San Francisco, his immediate predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, passed away at the Capital. At 11:20 of a quiet Sunday morning Admiral Grayson, his physician, emerged from the door of the ex-President's S Street home and faced the silent crowd which had gathered in the street. From a yellow slip of paper in his hand he read the official bulletin announcing that Mr. Wilson's death had taken place five minutes earlier. Many years before he entered the Presidency...
...Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who was once a humble locomotive engineer, attended a dinner given by the Australia and New Zealand Luncheon Club in honor of Australia Day. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Devonshire, Mr. Thomas' predecessor, were among those present...
...Conant's predecessor, old Jones the Bell-ringer, as he was called, who bore the brunt of the attacks in the old days. For 44 years he protected the bell and its clapper from an infinite variety of plots by undergraduates seeking a few extra hours of sleep in the morning. Mr. Conant described a few of the methods used, "Besides stealing the clapper, the boys used to tie up the bell with a rope. And in the wintertime they turned it upside down, filled it with water, and let it freeze." In order to avoid the padlocks, the usual...
...critique" held by the umpires last week. Assembled at the Colon Y. M. C. A., 400 officers heard the critique conducted by Admiral Robert E, Coontz, Commander of the U. S. Fleet, and Major General John L. Hines, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army. Admiral Coontz was the predecessor of Admiral Eberle as Chief of Naval Operations and former commander of divisions both of the Atlantic and of the Pacific fleets. In conjunction with General Hines he reached the conclusion "that the Canal is open to attack from the air, to bombardment and to raids...
...last period the action speeded up in no uncertain manner, and Cumings was called upon to stop four fast shots, while Newell, his predecessor during the first period, encountered but one sickly dribble. Harvard's attack also spruced up and Kelly, the B. U. cageman, had to do as much work as he had done in the first two periods combined...