Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permit illegal transport of Dempsey-Carpentier fight films. Nothing came of these investigation but "Villain" Burns resigned a few weeks after "Villain" Daugherty. The new Attorney General (Harlan Piske Stone, now of U. S. Supreme Court) thanked William John Burns for his services and wished him "all future success and happiness...
...Wiedfeldt, who incurred some sharp criticism when he refused to lower the German flag to half mast on the occasion of ex-President Woodrow Wilson's death. The second was Baron von Maltzan, who, although starting his diplomatic mission under the cloud of his predecessor, finally had achieved conspicuous success and popularity at the time of his death?an event which occasioned nationwide sympathy and sorrow...
From him, their new president, the British librarians at Edinburgh last week heard a heartening definition of library work which might have been meant for Chicago ears: "One of the main features on which the success of the library service depends is freedom?freedom of the locality to develop its resources without dictation; freedom of the library in its construction and accessibility; and freedom of the individual to seek for what he desires...
...capacity crowd will witness a team and its followers whose spirit, win or lose, is essentially unchanged. The loyalty of Brown men has been demonstrated year after year regardless of the past success of the team
...this term. It is with significance that one reminds himself of the important place the experimental approach took in the lives of Manet, Monet, Cezanne and still more recently in Bellows in the "Archery Party" there is a experimental study with the palette and stype of Gainsborough with due success. The figures in this scene are skillfully painted with the use of the palette knife in order to give to them their characteristic ostentatious appearance. The English scene "Punting" is mellow toned with a richness in quality in spite of the limited palette. From a difffferent point of view...