Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huston Thompson, Democrat, who has served on the Federal Trade Commission since 1918, retired last week. President Coolidge is pondering a list of Democrats, from which he will select a successor...
...pound eights will row separately this fall. The successor of Coach Newell will probably be named in time to call out the light weight boats for practice by Monday...
...more than the unofficial laureate of the Army he could never have been. At Laureate Tennyson's death in 1892, Mr. Kipling was a crusty young gazetteer from Lahore, just beginning to capture a world-wide audience of greater enthusiasm than discrimination. And when a successor to harmless old Alfred Austin was needed in 1913, Poet Kipling was already an anachronism. Moreover, the one sorry "bloomer" that Laureate Austin had committed-a headlong paean to celebrate the Jameson Raid in South Africa (1896)-was directly traceable to the Kipling virus...
...Officers. The resignation of President John Henry MacCracken of Lafayette College (elder brother of President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassal? College) was effective Oct. 1. No successor was in public sight. . . . Lincoln University (Chester Co., Pa.; for Negroes) entered its third successive year without any president at all, three candidates having been approached in-two years and found wanting some other post...
...demand expressions of loyalty to the new regime from the provincial authorities. With these pledges of support in his pocket almost any potent Greek can declare himself Dictator. General Theodore Pangalos seized power in exactly this way (TIME, July 6, 1925), and held on for 13 months. His successor, General Kondylis, accomplished his coup by methods equally simple and unconstitutional (TIME, Aug. 30). Therefore sophisticated persons were not surprised to learn that while riots and rebellious outbursts occurred generally throughout Athens last week they were most frequent near the central telegraph office...