Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perkin's successor, who is appointed by the Corporation, has not yet been chosen. Harvard has been governed by the corporation since 1650. The Corporation is composed of the President, the Treasurer, and five Fellows, of Har- vard College. The Corporation, which also controls the finances of the University, is self-perpetuating, and is responsible to the Board of Overseers. The Board of Overseers is elected by the alumni of the University...
...emergency Democratic State Convention sat at Cheyenne, Wyo., to nominate a successor to the late Governor William B. Ross (TIME, Oct. 13, MILESTONES). Two speeches were made, the roll-call by counties was begun. Then the Convention nominated by acclamation the second feminine gubernatorial nominee in U. S. history-Mrs. William B. Ross, widow of the late Governor. Antiquaries recalled that, in 1869, Wyoming (then a territory) enfranchised women before any other state or territory had done...
Whether or not the agreement embraced a more sweeping settlement was not known. In Manhattan, Wall Street opined that the agreement, if ratified by President Obregon, or his successor, General Calles, and the oil companies, would pave the way for a rehabilitation of the oil industry in Mexico by making it possible, for the first time in seven years, for the investment of U. S. capital in the exploration and development of new fields...
...dissolve Parliament. In the first case, he and his ministers deliver up the seals of office-emblems of their authority without which they cannot transact the business of the King's Government. It is usual for the outgoing Premier to advise His Majesty on the choice of a successor...
...Stalin is a silly sort of person. This man aims at being dictator of Russia-a thing which would be a catastrophe if it were to happen. My successor should never allow, in any case, that this man be appointed Secretary of the Communist Party...