Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall not appoint your successor," said President Masaryk to Dr. Svehla, "perhaps you may yet recover your health...
...Stefan Raditch's successor as leader of the Croats is Dr. Vladko Matchek. Last week he strove grimly and discreetly to persuade General Zivkovitch not to sup press freedom of speech and assembly utterly in Croatia. Curiously enough, Dr. Matchek favored the dictature when it was first proclaimed, but last fortnight he said...
...Prohibition legislation can be or ever has been enacted without advice and consent (and usually whipping) from this office. There ruled the late great Wayne B. Wheeler (heavy-lensed glasses and crooked mouth). There reigns now his successor F. Scott McBride, General Superintendent and Legislative Representative of the League...
Propagandist Dittemore in 1919 quarreled with the trustees and other directors of the Boston Christian Science Church and was ousted. He went to London where he allied himself with Mrs. Annie C. Bill, self-styled "successor" to Mrs. Eddy and founder of a slightly insurgent Christian Science church known as the Parent Church. As everyone knows, the Boston church is always referred to as the Mother Church...
...then wearily he sat down. When Commissioner Hay returned, even the most phlegmatic councilman could spot him as a bearer of bad tidings. From London had come a trunk call. Gen. Booth had gone to law, obtaining a temporary injunction which forbade the council to elect a successor to his deposed self...