Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally too busy, with divisional examinations in prospect, to afford as much time to managerial duties as is desirable. It is pointed out also that under the new system the manager in office will be in a position always to receive valuable aid and advice from an experienced predecessor who will be on hand to help him. These appear to be the chief reasons advanced to explain this innovation in managerial policy,--an innovation which, provided it works well in one instance, may spread much farther...
Joseph Little Bristow, insurgent predecessor of Nominee Curtis as Senator from Kansas (1909-15), now a Washington, D. C., realtor and country gentleman. Reason: Hoover's sympathetic knowledge of the West...
Anaconda. Miner Clark's triumph over Miner Daly did not end the copper wars. Bitter and prolonged was the battle over titles between Miner Fritz Augustus Heinze, onetime friend of Miner Clark, and the Amalgamated Copper Co., predecessor of Anaconda. A great tactical advantage passed to Anaconda when it bought the Heinze properties. Gradually, Anaconda became master of Butte, a power in all Montana...
...Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, which changed its name to the House of Windsor during the War, became slightly estranged from the French House of Bourbon, when a most scurrilous cartoon of British Queen Victoria was openly guffawed at by "King Louis Philippe III of France," the cousin and predecessor of the present "King Jean III." Since the Royal Guffawer is now dead and the cartoon forgotten, it was easy, last week, for their Britannic Majesties to bestow gracious hospitality upon Dauphin Henri, a handsome youth of 20, who is now an undergraduate at the famed Belgian University of Louvain...
Bishop Temple's father was the late Frederick Temple, Dr. Davidson's immediate predecessor as Archbishop of Canterbury. William Temple, Archbishop of York-to-be, was Archbishop Davidson's chaplain at Canterbury...