Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nolan, Republican, Representative from California, sole female member of the 68th Congress. She was chosen Chairman of one of the House's 60 committees-the Committee on Expenditures of the Post Office Department. She is also a member of the Labor Committee, of which her late husband and predecessor was Chairman. At her own request, she was relieved of her post on the Woman Suffrage Committee, because she did not care to hold more than two committee posts...
...Keir will live in the Freshman dormitories, in the George Smith Hall, A 21, the suite which his predecessor occupied, where he will hold consultation hours...
...present there are only two American cardinals ? Archbishops O'Connell of Boston and Dougherty of Philadelphia. The first American cardinal was John McCloskey of New York. The greatest was James Gibbons of Baltimore. The other two were Archbishop Farley of New York, predecessor of Archbishop Hayes? and Mgr. Falconio, Apostolic delegate to Washington, a naturalized American...
China under President Tsao-Kun (Tins, Oct. 15) is hardly less chaotic than it was under his predecessor Li Yuan-Hung...
...Alberto J. Pani, who recently succeeded General Adolfo de la Huerta as Secretary of the Treasury, drew up a series of charges against his predecessor in a paper For the Information of the President. Señor Pani said: "I believe that it is urgent on your part to dictate measures that will relieve us of an immediate financial catastrophe...