Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handsomest, is Spanish. At one point in his career he acquired European culture, and by advocating new and clean government he secured his election as President of Peru. But for some unexplained reason he found it necessary to seize power by a revolution only a week before his predecessor's term would have legally expired...
...conservative, while Justice Day often, and Justice Pitney occasionally, joined the liberal group. The appointment of Chief Justice Taft in place of Chief Justice White tended to liberalize the court, for, while he has upheld the injunction in labor disputes, he has also upheld emergency rent laws, which his predecessor considered an infringement on liberty of contract. But the retirement of Justices Day, Pitney and Clarke deprived the court of one announced liberal, and two associates who often joined him in bringing about a liberal decision. Of their successors, Justices Sutherland and Butler appear to be almost reactionary, and there...
...accordance with the request of 28 Cardinals, Pope Pius XI began the procedure for the beatification and subsequent canonization of his predecessor, Pope Pius X, by appointing postulators. The function of the postulators is to prove that Pius X performed "an heroic degree" the three theological virtues-faith, hope, charity- and the four cardinal virtues-prudence, justice, courage, temperance. The Abbe Pierami, procurator general of the Valombrosan Benedictines, was elected chief postulator for Italy. It is stated that all the Sacred College living in Rome, with the exception of Cardinal Pompili, who as Vicar of Rome must be the judge...
...minute sheet, and its predecessor "Time", appear as flags of truce the animated man has won, not peace, but unhindered activity. He who runs may both read and think, and pick up his ideas on route. His literature he reads in reviews, he listens to the essences of the opera from the Victoria, and he hears the foreign lecturer through the headpiece of his radio while he dictates a purchase order. A file for your fly, he says, that "sate upon the axie-tree of the chariol wheel, and said, "What a dust do I raise...
...Harding: " She represents the highest type of cultured American womanhood, and no predecessor in her high place has ever presided over the White House with more grace and genuine kindliness...