Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successor graduated from Harvard in 1892, and from the Law School three years later. He was a lecturer in the Law School in 1905-06 and also in the following year. He is a trustee of Exerted Academy, and was director of the Harvard Alumni Association from 1919 to 1922. As Commissioner General for the League of Nations in Hungary during the years of 1924 to 1926, he was responsible for the financial reconstruction of that country...
...master and major interest for most of his 68 years has been the U. S. Government. Last week he, Major General Enoch Herbert Crowder (retired), handed in his resignation as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba. He will leave this post on Sept. 1 to practice law in Chicago. His successor has not yet been designated...
...Pope Pius XI was a man, no god. They must not, as the ignorant among them are prone to do in their mystic exaltations during Holy Week, imagine Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti other than a onetime boy in Milan, onetime Papal Nuncio to Poland, onetime cardinal, now the 260th successor to St. Peter as head of their Church. They are no Egyptians to deify a pharaoh, no Romans to worship an emperor...
...only Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a maiden budget (TIME, May 12, 1924), so clear and masterful that cheers rang from every quarter of the House. Now, since Labor has gone out and Conservatism come in,- Philip Snowden has rasped and torn at every budget presented by his successor as Chancellor of the Exchequer, big, humorous, dynamic Winston S. Churchill. Therefore, because Chancellor Churchill has just presented his new budget (TIME, April 18) onetime Chancellor Snowden hobbled in last week, like a malignant witch doctor and rapped seering words: "The Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] is a costly luxury...
These are questions now being asked in Washington, D. C., and many an asker has also his answer. For rumor persists that Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg will shortly tender his resignation, that Ambassador Charles MacVeagh will be named as his successor. Tale-spreaders maintain also that Secretary Kellogg's continued ill health may in itself constitute a reason for his resignation...