Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Joseph A. Warren, 47, of New York, predecessor to New York Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen; at Greenwich, Conn. Longtime friend of Mayor James John Walker, his college mate at St. Francis Xavier College and New York Law School. Mr. Warren was broken in health since he "resigned" last year (TIME, Dec. 24) after failing to solve the still unsolved killing of Gambler Arnold Rothstein...
Evidently the Briton in the street had pricked up ears at "sponge cake," grinned approval at the project of ending John Bull's "henpecked husbandhood." The most amazing tribute came from Quebec, where famed Conservative Winston Churchill, immediate predecessor of Chancellor Snowden at the Exchequer, was lecture-touring last week. Said he warmly: "I think Snowden is opposing the Young Plan not on personal or party grounds but solely as an Englishman who wants fair play...
Simultaneously John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, Mayor Walker's voluble predecessor, now an independent candidate for reelection, put in wide circulation an envelope inscribed: "Voter-Who killed Rothstein and Marlow?" A card inside replied: "Send Hylan back to City Hall. Send Enright back to Police Headquarters. They may find...
Another who hates parting with actual coin of the realm is President Hipolito Irigoyen of Argentina. Almost since his inauguration last October he has refused to sanction payment for government bills contracted with "serious irregularities" by his predecessor, President Marcelo T. de Alvear (1922-28). Last week two new Argentine destroyers were ready for delivery in British shipyards. A transport with a crew of 800 officers and sailors had arrived at London docks, ready to take over the war boats and sail them back to Buenos Aires. Unfortunately President Irigoyen had neglected to send any money. As Horatius defied...
...went to Burroughs Adding Machine Co., then located in St. Louis, as General Manager. He found that the man whom he succeeded as General Manager had left in a great rage. Soon Mr. Macauley, planning an expansion program, needed to acquire a certain alley. His predecessor had a good deal of political influence and the City Fathers would not give Mr. Macauley his alley. So Mr. Macauley took a train to Detroit, made arrangements for securing all necessary alleys and other real estate. Then back to St. Louis he went...