Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harmel 1G, who was announced as coach for the coming series, has been forced to resign by the pressure of studies. His successor coached both the triangular teams in 1923, and the team which met Oxford in Symphony Hall last September...
When President Harding died, the eyes of the nation turned toward his successor, Calvin Coolidge. Ex-President Wilson's death leaves, technically, no office for a successor. But Mr. Wilson to the day of his death held office as the leader of an outstanding movement?by some admired, by others abhorred?the League-of-Nations idea. By his part in creating the League, by his advocacy of it, which cost him his health, there was no disputing his title. With his death the mantle descends. There is little doubt that it falls upon the shoulders of John Hessin Clarke, former...
...theatre in Moscow, draped in mourning for Lenin, the Congress of Soviets of the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics met to elect a successor to Nikolai Lenin, late Chief Executive...
...Charles H. Hamill; from Detroit, William H. Murphy; from Cincinnati, Mrs. Charles P. Taft; from Cleveland, Mrs. John L. Severance; from Rochester, home of the youngest of all big orchestras, George Eastman; from Philadelphia, Alexander van Rensselaer, acting for Edward W. Bok; from Boston, Judge Frederick P. Cabot, the successor of Major Lee Higginson. With them will come 13 business managers...
...relay with Yale was the University's almost from the start. Geilfuss of Yale and Allen exchanged the pole twice in the early laps of the opening leg, but the latter finally asserted his mastery. Chapin, following him, received a ten-yard lead, and passed it on to his successor, Cutcheon with 15 yards more, while Watters, at anchor, started 40 yards ahead of Chapman, and finished with a half-lap advantage in the fast time of 8 minutes, 11 and 2-5 seconds...