Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President called to the White House for a brief conference, late in the week, good-natured Captain Adolphus Andrews, for three years skipper of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, and his successor, Captain Wilson Brown, who served until recently as aide to the Commander of the Pacific destroyer squadron and commanded during the War the anti-submarine patrol ship Parker...
...House of Peers,* became Finance Minister. While serving in this post he associated himself with the great Viscount Kato, then Foreign Minister; and together they fostered the policy of bringing Japan into the War on the side of the Allies. Such is the status of Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki, successor to his late friend and leader Premier Viscount Kato (TIME, Feb. 8). With the passing of Kato the strength of the Kensei-kai has waned. Only by compromising with the Seiyu-kai has it been possible for Premier Wakatsuki to get action and roll up at the session just closed...
...publisher's spring lists contain many a standard commodity. Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim's vast museum now includes The Golden Beast (Little, Brown). Miss Ethel M. Dell submits A Man Under Authority (Putnam). Harvey O'Higgins has a successor to Julie Cane in Clara Barron (Harpers). Irvin Cobb's new tales, more pensive than usual, are all On an Island That Cost $24 (Doran). Katharine Haviland Taylor is out again, with Stanley Johns' Wife (Doran), and Albert Payson Terhune with Treasure (Harpers...
...went through the form of asking M. Herriot to form a Cabinet, since custom did not allow him to call upon the fallen Premier (Briand) until someone else had "failed" to assemble a Ministry. Needless to say, M. Herriot "failed" instanter-rather, he "declined" and "recommended" Briand as his successor. President Doumergue then called in the much harassed Aristide and persuaded him to form his ninth Cabinet...
...will but add to Lampie's already over heavy lead of debts. And it is against sound business principles to attempt the financially impossible. Yet there is no reason why some attempt should not made to restore to Harvard her fountain of folly. Therefore, any attempt to create a successor will receive all possible assistance from the CRIMSON and no doubt from the Advocate as well...