Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Switzerland up swelled last week the leg of Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias, claimant to the vacant Spanish Throne after his ousted father King Alfonso XIII. As to what was the matter an expensive galaxy of specialists violently disagreed. Some said Don Juan had elephantiasis, others that he is contracting hemophilia, the dread Bourbon scourge...
With considerably less self-consciousness, the annual meeting of the House of Bishops of the U. S. Episcopal Church also took place last week in Evanston. It elected three new missionary bishops: Venerable Winfred H. Ziegler, Archdeacon of Chicago, to the Wyoming post left vacant by the death of the late Bishop Elmer Nicholas Schmuck; Rev. Dr. Douglas H. Atwill of St. Paul to the North Dakota district; Dean Harry Beal of Los Angeles to the Canal Zone. The bishops settled another Episcopal matter which had long plagued the Church: whether Bishop Frank Elmer Wrilson of Eau Claire...
...wanted to get someone out of the country. The high point of Hamilton Fish is in its picture of the strange and lonely President, who would send his old friends to Fish with a card stating his willingness "to give the bearer . . . one of the best consulates now vacant," who confided State secrets to strangers and who was so inattentive that after weeks of discussion he would suddenly ask a question that betrayed complete ignorance of the subject discussed. After 27 months of the Cuban revolt, when Spanish armies had been sent to that island, a popular move...
...least 274 men have applied for House rooms this year and have had their applications turned down. This winter, for the first time, all the rooms were signed up. (The only suite now vacant is unoccupied because illness has prevented the owner from returning thus...
...some friendly bankers into the deal for a minority interest. Final price was not revealed but the reported figure was $2,000,000. Son George Simon stayed on as vice president. A new board of directors and a new executive vice president were promptly installed last week. The vacant presidency is yet to be filled...