Word: interims
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...assuming his duties, Professor Romer fills the vacancy created last January by the death of Professor Thomas Barbour. Professor Henry B. Bigelow has served as Acting Director in the interim...
...Angel Street" is the tale of a Macchiavellian murderer who is cheated out of the fruits of his crime, the theft of valuable rubies, and waits fifteen years before returning to the scene, having acquired a moustache and a new, naive, wealthy British wife in the interim, to continue his search for the gems. Since the entire scheme, and a broad hint as to the outcome, are brought out in the first act, it takes worthy performances by the murderer and his unsuspecting wife, who is being methodically driven out of her mind by her spouse, to sustain the terror...
Things were so bad that Mohandas Gandhi devoted his weekly day of silence, when he usually gets a rest from the questions*that pour in from all over India, to fuming and fretting over the big question of Congress cooperation in an interim government...
...Gandhi's insistence, the Working Committee refused to participate in the interim government of India unless the British agreed to name at least one Moslem to the Congress Party group in the interim government. Such a provision would further infuriate the Moslem League's Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Gandhi was very tough in handling the opposition to his policy. Objecting to newspaper stories about the negotiations, he dropped his air of outward benevolence, cried: "If I were appointed dictator for a day in place of the Viceroy, I would stop all newspapers-except, of course, Harijan" (Gandhi...
...Governor thoroughly expected that it would drive wily 37-year-old Attorney Bill Jenner into the G.O.P. senatorial nomination. Jenner had been in county politics for twelve years, spent over two years in the Army as a captain, served an interim term in the Senate, and had the gift of oratory. He was respected and trusted by almost all Indiana's organization Republicans. But he had to beat both a high-wheeled conservative (stodgy 70-year-old Senator Raymond E. Willis) and a jet-propelled progressive (Congressman Charles M. LaFollette...