Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viscount Grey of Falloden has been mentioned as his successor. As Lord Grey is a Liberal it is hardly likely that he will accept office under a Conservative Government. Undoubtedly he would be the best man, but Lord Robert Cecil seems to be more in the running...
Grey of Falloden. Liberal he is; Curzon's successor...
...great river-occasional floods, but in general a continuous flow. In countries like the Balkans it is a series of cloudbursts. In Porto Rico it is a geyser-spurting periodically. The recent Governor of Porto Rico, E. Mont Reily, left office under criticism, if not because of it. His successor, Horace M. Towner, had hardly come within range of the Porto Rican geyser before he began to be spattered with mud. Politicians in Porto Rico are divided into three parts. Of these, the Unionists are the dominant group. San Juan, the capital on the North coast, is their stronghold...
Hoping to pacify the island, the President and Secretary of War Weeks chose as Reily's successor Representative. Horace M. Towner of Iowa, Chairman of the House Insular Affairs Committee, who on arriving at his post was greeted with a tremendous ovation, " the greatest celebration that the island had ever witnessed...
...explicitly opposed to the World Court. Mr. Adams made a flying trip from Washington to New York, saw Mr. Munsey, hurried back to Washington. Only two people were the wiser for the trip. June 18 is the date of the Minnesota special primary which precedes the election of a successor to the late Senator Knute Nelson. The candidates at the primary include...