Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, ridiculous. William Booth exercised his legal right and named his son Bramwell Booth to succeed him. Having done that he had no further power of controlling the succession. William Booth died in 1912, the only General of The Salvation Army who had the power of nominating his successor. Evangeline Booth was duly elected General by the legally constituted body deriving its authority from the Act passed in the British Parliament...
...Noro"). In Buenos Aires wise Catholics will gaze speculatively on the austere features of Cardinal Pacelli, for he will undoubtedly be a man to be reckoned with when the present Pope, now 77, dies and the Princes of the Church gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor...
...admirably her difficult task in replacing Lyda Robert. It is no easy trick to supplant the dynamic, hip-swinging Lyda in a typically Roberti role, but Odette Myrtil is really all that can be desired short of the genuine Miss Roberti herself. Tamara, in the role of Stephanie, the successor to Madame Roberta as the guiding light of the dressmaking business and the eventual heroine of the piece, is intriguingly pleasant. Our hero, an All-American fullback who becomes involved in dress-making is hardly more than an unavoidable cog in the necessary story, which is itself of very minor...
...President Arthur Henderson of the nearly defunct Disarmament Conference presented last week by a Hungarian newspaper which was almost alone in printing the full text of the speech which poor, neglected "Uncle Arthur" seized this occasion to make. Another complete fiasco was the speech of assassinated Chancellor Dollfuss' successor, dry, circumloquacious Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. For almost an hour he enunciated such involved platitudes as "this is no time for retrospective discussion as to whether Austria was bound to become what she now is, but I must urge that she must be preserved as she now is. That...
With voice trials for all aspirants being held in Sever 11 Wednesday and Thursday this week, the Glee Club begins its second season under the tutelage of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, successor to the renowned Doc Davison. Trials are to be held from seven to nine o'clock and are open to all members of the University Rehearsals will begin next Monday...