Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, Hooverites started forming a Committee of One Thousand. Of the 237 Republicans in the House of Representatives, 110 signed up. At least 20 of the 48 Senate Republicans were expected to sign. The Hooverizing petition said: "We have been fortunate in President Coolidge. We must have in his successor, through the Republican Party, an assurance of continuity, stability and national progression...
Though he was one of its least conspicuous members, Senator Ferris' death made a difference of two votes in the Senate. The Democrats lost him and the Republicans stood to gain a seat when his successor was appointed by Republican Governor Frederick W. Green of Michigan...
Though these phrases rang out against Britain, observers were confident that no effective steps to enforce them could be taken by fledgling Prime Minister Nahass. True he is the successor of the late famed Zaghlul Pasha who forged and created the Wafd; but Nahass Pasha, wafded into power, is scarcely a match for lean-limbed, steely-eyed Baron Lloyd...
This enlarged meeting of the International Missionary Council is the successor of the Continuation Committee of the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910. The number of delegates who will attend it is far smaller, but, while the Edinburgh Conference was almost entirely peopled by Americans and Europeans, the Jerusalem Conference includes natives from India, Siam, Ceylon, Japan and other remote districts. The U. S. delegates include famed Dr. Robert Russa Moton, head of Tuskegee Institute, who will talk about Negroes...
...Bruce King, just one of those men whom women cannot forget. The women, to be sure, are only two; Mrs. Crane and the temptress who has stolen her husband. Since wily Mrs. Crane has promised to give Mr. Crane his freedom in case he can find her a fitting successor to himself and since the appealing and wealthy Mr. King has been introduced with this end in view, it is right & fair that Mrs. Crane should love him at sight. But the fancy of the other lady, doubtless magnetized as much by the gold of which he is supposed...