Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year term of President Dr. Jean M. Musy of the Swiss Confederation will expire. Last week the Swiss Federal Assembly, the Bundes-Versammlung, at Bern, chose as his successor according to custom the Vice President, M. Henri Haeberlin, famed Swiss barrister, Minister of Justice for the past year and sometime Premier...
...that Secret Consistory in the Hall of the Consistory, faced by the Sacred College of his scarlet robed Cardinals, sat white-clad Pius XI, once Achille Ratti, but since Feb. 12, 1922, His Holiness the Pope, Bishop of Rome an Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Temporal Dominions of the Holy Roman Church...
...committees on which his father held a place: Manufactures and Indian Affairs. Earlier in the week the Committee on Committees was deadlocked by the grotesquely inadvertent presence of Senator Wadsworth, no longer a member of the Committee, who strolled in and voted, in the absence of his successor Senator Means. Everyone implicated had displayed Olympian absentmindedness and no stigma attached to anyone...
...come into the foreground shortly. On Dec. 31 he succeeds Lieutenant Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill, who is resigning from his post as Director of Public Buildings and Parks of the District of Columbia to become City Manager of Cincinnati. Major Grant, formerly Colonel Sherrill's assistant, becomes his successor...
...Founding Fathers" made few worse blunders than this one, which permits a Congress to legislate for a people over a year after its leadership has been rejected, while it holds its successor waiting on the sidelines for a chance to execute the popular mandate...