Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michael Abbatemarco, supposedly Uale's successor in Brooklyn, has been heard to scorn bodyguards with the fatalistic philosophy that if he was going to be killed he could not avoid it. Last week he quit a card game in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, at 4 A. M. He drove away in a glossy coupe. One half hour later the car was stopped, the motor running. Michael sprawled limply over the wheel. Three bullets were in his head, one in his chest. A shadowy figure walked off across a vacant lot, dropped an automatic pistol...
...more obviously than Nominee Hoover today, Nominee Taft in 1908 was a President's hand-picked successor. Also like Hoover, he had never before run for a public executive office. With Roosevelt's aegis over his personal distinction, he easily beat Bryan. On a blizzardy 4th of March he drove, behind four skittish bay horses, to be inaugurated in the Senate Chamber...
...babyish title of an Eastern and elaborate musical comedy whose plot depends, not upon romance and cotton-wool, but upon the hero's efforts to avoid castration. The hero is the son, born in early wedlock, of the Grand Eunuch. Not wishing to be his father's successor, he flees the royal city in company with his wife, Chee-Chee. On the road, they are beset by Tartars, monks and brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches up with his son and prepares...
...Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi (successor to the great Count Volpi who has been "rotated") countenanced release of the following comparative statistics: "Whereas U. S. citizens are taxed 13.3 per cent of their earnings. Englishmen 27.3 per cent and Frenchmen 29.2 per cent, the Italian people are taxed 38.1 of their earnings?or almost three times as much as U. S. citizens...
Robert Keen Lamb Occ., of Washington, D. C., has been appointed assistant in the University Bureau of Publicity, it was announced yesterday. Pending the appointment of a successor to J. W. D. Seymour '17, former Secretary to the University for Information, Lamb will supervise news releases and carry on the duties of the Director's office under the immediate direction of Matthew Luce '91, Regent of the University...