Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...younger Adams's day, so it is the Senate where gossip places ex-Presi-dents. The difficulty is that there never is a vacancy at the right time. Some one is up for reelection. Or if a member dies or retires, others have made plans years ahead to succeed the retiring member. Thus it will rarely happen that an ex-President can enter the Senate without an undignified and unseemly contest. Then, too it is probable that most ex-Presi-dents would shrink from membership in the. Senate. An ex-Presi-dent would enter the Senate a tyro, like...
This is little less than a tragedy to the Japanese royal house. Girls in the Orient have no social standing or importance of their own; their position is always derived from the male, either their father or the husband they marry. Therefore, a girl may not succeed to the august throne of Jimmu Tenno, occupied by the present dynasty for 2587 years...
Within are stories about Coolidge, Carnegie, John Singer Sargent, Roosevelt, Mrs. Ogden Reid; a facsimile manuscript of Kipling's "If"; snatches from famous biographies; answers to questions about how to get a job and succeed in it by Ford, Joseph C. Grew, Ethel Barrymore...
Elections. To succeed President Whitman, the Association unanimously elected Silas Hardy Strawn, potent Chicago corporation lawyer, lately a presidential emissary to war-tangled China. Secretary Mac-Cracken and Treasurer John H. Voorhees of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., were reelected...
...succeed Norman G. Heyd of Toronto as Supreme Dictator, the Moose elected Ethelred M. Stafford of New Orleans...