Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lamont did what was expected of him when he said YES to all his predecessor's plans and policies, thus...
...names form an epitome of air adventure. Capt. Arturo Ferrarin of Italy, his fel lows believe, accomplished the best feat of the year. With Major Carlo Delprete, he flew non-stop from Rome to Port Natal, Brazil, 4,417 miles in 51 hr. 59 min. Capt. Ferrarin's predecessor, in 1927, was of course Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh - New York-Paris, 3,600 miles, 33 hr. 30 min., all alone...
...that since the war the spontaneous cooperation on the part of a class so necessary to the dance's success as a social affair has waned considerably. It is of course difficult for each successive class to believe that it cannot improve on the efforts of its predecessor. The paramount conviction is that Memorial Hall has, in this ultramodern age, proved the nemesis of the dance and that its success would be assured by transference of the festivity to an up-to-date Boston ballroom. The class officers could petition for such a radical change of the character...
When the Diocese of New York was seeking a successor to Bishop Charles S. Burch eight years ago. Rev. William Thomas Manning was but a minority candidate. There were two objections to the then rector of Trinity: 1) he was a "High" Churchman, while his predecessor Bishop Greer had been of the "Broad" persuasion; 2) he was a native of England, an Anglophile...
...time for tact on the bishop's part. All factions must be placated while the campaign for funds to complete the great cathedral was going on so Bishop Manning tactfully retained Dean Howard Chandler Robbins, who had been nominated by his predecessor. Broad dean and High bishop, they labored side by side in the vineyard, and the money came rolling in. During these years, now and then there were tiffs, but nothing critical. The skeleton of high-church Anglophilism never once so much as twittered. And finally the Gothic dream was fairly funded...