Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House telegraphist; Pat McKenna, Cerberus of the White House office, friend of all dignitaries for the last 20 years; Erwin Geisser, the President's stenographer; Katherine Gwynn, Mrs. Coolidge's maid; John May, White House butler, valet ad interim to the President; Julia Jongbloet, cook, successor to the famed Martha M. Mulvey; Rob Roy, collie; and Paul Pry (the report that Paul Pry, grown vicious, was about to be disposed of, seems to have been an unfounded libel). Not included in the party were Mrs. Jaffrey, Presidential housekeeper (on vacation) ; Wilson Jackson, master of pets; Rudolf Forster...
...smaller, immediate question is nearer solution. Due to the peculiarities of Wisconsin law, Mr. LaFollette's successor must be elected, not appointed. The suggested candidates include Governor Elaine of Wisconsin, Attorney General Eckern of that state (rivals), Mrs. LaFollette. With their leader dead and their ranks split with dissention, the LaFollettians must heal their quarrels, or Lenroot and the regular Republicans will regain the ground which LaFollette took...
...Cleveland, the Advising Board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers met and chose a successor to Warren S. Stone, their President (TIME, June...
...office of Visitor is an ecclesiastical dignity of honorary importance in most cases connected with the bishopric of Oxford. The "House" and some other colleges have the right to elect their own Visitors. The King visited the "House," not as King, but as the ecclesiastical successor of Cardinal Wolsey. *Every night at 9.05 o'clock, white the scholars are in residence, "Old Tom" is tolled 101 times, the number being determined by the original number of the foundation...
Under Dean Alfred H. Lloyd of her Graduate School as acting president, Michigan University closed her doors without having named a successor to the late Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, her dead President (TIME, Mar. 2). Never were the educational woods so full of likely timber, yet there was only one rumor of a marked man. That came from James O. Murfin, a regent of the University, and was perhaps more than a rumor. At a Michigan convention, held, last week, at Detroit, Mr. Murfin invited those present to embody in the form of a resolution their sentiments towards Samuel Emory...