Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vulgar vaudeville actor." His method this time was to invite the public to free vaudeville programs, then orate. Leaving office, he sought nomination for governor, losing to Klan-backed Ed. Jackson. His latest public appearance was last week as a witness in the trial for corruption of his mayoral successor, John L. Duvall (see CORRUPTION...
...diplomacy, his skill and farsightedness won him the respect of statesmen far beyond the frontiers of Germany. Simple and unaffected in speech, he exuded an earnestness and sincerity that marked him as capable and efficient and endeared him to all. Coming to Washington two years ago as the successor of Dr. Wiedfeldt, who refused to lower the German flag at the death of ex-President Woodrow Wilson, he had a hard row to hoe; but by his energy and straight-forwardness in official matters and by his skill and charm as a host he soon conquered the Washington diplomatic circle...
...headway lately, and many a politician who is neither wet nor dry having lately for- gotten to be dry outwardly, the Anti-Saloon League is reported ready to spend $600,000 the next few months to remind forgetful politicians of its power. As soon as may be, a successor to the late Mr. Wheeler as high-salaried, legalistic manipulator of funds and politicians, will be chosen. In the meantime, the League announced last week, double duty will be done by Dr. F. Scott McBride, whose functions hitherto have been to berate alcohol at conventions of people who agree with...
...That Ed Jackson offered the indicted Governor $10,000 cash and a guarantee that he would not be convicted for his felony, in return for Mr. McDonald's appointment. 3) That Mr. McCray refused Mr. Jackson, his cash and his immunity, appointing instead to the vacant post the successor recommended by his son-in-law, namely, William H. Remy. 4) That Grand Dragon David C. Stephenson of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan later repeated the cash-and-immunity offer to Mr. McCray, who again refused. 5) That Mr. Jackson and Mr. Stephenson then threatened Mr. McCray, while...
...that it contribute funds toward an international house of chemistry, proposed as a centenary memorial to Marcellin Pierre Eugene Berthelot, French chemist and politician, successor to Louis Pasteur as per- petual secretary of the Academy of Sciences. Reason: The request had come, through governmental channels; the American Chemical Society believed that any centralization of world science should be initiated by scientific societies...