Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Samuel D. Nicholson of Colorado deprives the Republicans of another vote in the next Senate. In the new Congress the Republicans had, until the death of Senator Nicholson, 53 Senators; the Democrats, 42; and the Fanner-Laborites, 1. Governor Sweet of Colorado, who must appoint a successor to Senator Nicholson, is a Democrat sponsored by the Nonpartisan League. Senators Ladd, Frazier, Shipstead, Wheeler, Howell, Brookhart and La Follette were also sponsored by the League. Consequently it is expected that a radical Democrat will be appointed to the vacancy caused by Senator Nicholson's death. The resulting alignment will...
Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, Republican -one time football star at the University of Pennsylvania, and successor of Boies Penrose-was picked by Senator Lodge to be a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of the next (68th) Congress when it convenes in December...
...Woman Suffrage Alliance will met at Rome in May to choose a successor to its president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. The question is: Who will be elected? Mrs. Margery Corbett Ashby is being put forward by English suffragists. But the post has been occupied by an American for 20 years, and another Anglo-Saxon is considered undesirable. Mme. Marguerite Schlumberger, president of the French branch of the alliance, is suggested, but her election might "drive the Germans out of the association." Besides Mrs. Ashby and Mme. Schlumberger, Miss Crystal MacMillan of Scotland is the only other woman mentioned...
...Charles II, retained his hat in the presence of that monarch upon a plea that he could not allow any of his scholars to think that there was a greater man than he at Westminster, and that King George graciously allowed a similar privilege to his successor...
...five-yard lead to his teammate, Pickard. Sullivan, the next Latin runner, dropped the baron on the first corner, and, before he could recover itt, was many yards behind. He started immediately, however, and steadily gained ground, finally passing his opponent on the last lap and giving his successor a three-yard lead, which was gradually increased in spite of the efforts of the English runners...