Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...score of notable educators, business men and publicists, unanimously adopted these resolutions. They had been called to a luncheon at the Bankers' Club, Manhattan, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy; John W. Davis, Mr. Page's successor as Ambassador to Great Britain; George W. Wickersham, Attorney General under President Taft; Dr. John H. Finley, educational expert of The New York Times; Dr. Albert Shaw, Editor of The Review of Reviews, and Julius H. Barnes, of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
...John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, conferred with the President regarding a successor to Federal Judge A. B. Anderson of Indiana, who is slated for elevation to the Court of Appeals. Mr. Lewis recommended the appointment of Representative Sanders...
George Wharton Pepper, Senator from Pennsylvania, presented a resolution "advising" the President to call a world conference which should be a spiritual successor of the Hague Conferences of 1894 and 1907. It would discuss armament, law, dissociation of the present World Court from the League...
Result: 175 Republicans, 177 Democrats, 1 Socialist (Berger of Milwaukee) 1 Independent (Kvale, successor of Volstead), 1 Farmer-Laborite (Wefald of Minnesota)?355, in all, favored the bill. Opposed were 34 Republicans, 20 Democrats?54 in all, most of them from Eastern states...
...soul to the wizard unless he can find another victim. As a candidate he picks the noble young hero, Max, who loves Agatha, daughter of the Prince's chief ranger, one Kuno. In the shooting contest which is to 'decide who is to be Kuno's successor, Kaspar, through Zamiel's magic, makes Max miss the target. Max despairs (very tunefully...