Word: successor
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This paper and its successor, the Aurora, became chief begetters of what Author Faÿ calls "the second American Revolution . . . that broke Federalism and the English alliance." After the Revolutionary War the Federalists, with Washington as their dignified figurehead, grew cooler & cooler to France, wanted a treaty with England. They overrode Ambassador Genet's dangerous popularity with the U. S. crowd, forced his retirement. But when John Jay brought back from England his famed pusillanimous treaty, even Washington kept the text dark till he could be sure of getting it through Congress. Benny Bache spilled the beans...
...famous Colonial silversmith, made another, remarkable for its simplicity and dignity, which was used until 1812. At this time a simple reproduction was made. Josiah Quincy, President of the College from 1836 to 1846, and historian of the bicentennial in 1836 next essayed a most elaborate design, but his successor restored the older design. No change was then made until 1885 produced the Appleton design, which remains to the present...
Since everyone knows that lottery methods cannot fill the bucket of France's deficit, crucial interest began to focus on the reassembling of the Chamber of Deputies next month. Writing in Le Capital last week former Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin, no friend of his successor M. Bonnet, submitted a brutal analysis of the budget situation, proved that the Chamber can restore stability, but only by wholesale cuts in veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely...
...main task which confronts Coach Carr will be to develop a successor to Captain Alan T. Schumacher '33, who played at right outside. He will also need to find a pair of capable wing half-backs...
...Classes of 1935 and 1936 made the most of the many opportunities afforded by the Union for broadening social and intellectual pursuits. It is only natural that their successor in the Yard and Union, the Class of 1937, will wish to do the same, having the same end of class unification through social contact in view, even though employing means to that end more in conformity with its class individuality...