Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Pray, who has held the Charles Eliot Chair of Landscape Architecture since 1914, was on sabbatical leave for the current year, but expected to resume teaching on his return. No successor has as yet been indicated...
...declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the fourth day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon. . . ." With this last Presidential proclamation, Calvin Coolidge summoned the Senate to confirm his successor's Cabinet and other appointments. ¶To the Senate for confirmation as U. S. Radio Commissioners President Coolidge sent the names of Arthur Batcheller of Massachusetts, Cyril N. Jansky Jr. of Minnesota; for associate justices on the U. S. Customs Court of Appeals. Finis James Garrett of Tennessee, Irvine Luther...
...Many an editor wanted to publish his face. But they had none of his photographs. Therefore they did the next best thing and published pictures of the man he assailed-Bishop Francis John McConnell. newly elected President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, successor to the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman (TIME...
...weekly published in Philadelphia. And the Presbyterian's editor, approving, added: "The hearts of real Presbyterians had rather grown accustomed to be saddened by the utterances of Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, who until recently was President of the Federal Council of Churches. It was hoped that his successor would be a man whose utterances would at least be in harmony with the teachings of evangelical Christianity...
...matters related to the English Department alone there is likewise improvement, from the student's viewpoint. The successor of English D will no longer be a requirement for those falling in the successor of English A, and I will count, as it should, for a degree. But it is unfortunate that the authorities find it still necessary to continue the first half of English A under any name as a requirement. Only men coming to college with an extremely poor foundation can get a return out of the labors of the first part of the course at all proportionate...