Word: titular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe) the Chancellor of the Exchequer-but this rule has ceased to hold. Gaunt, dynamic Chancellor Neville Chamberlain has every right to live in No. 11 and is rated the real head of the ruling Conservative Party, but he joins in showing every deference to the party's titular Leader, beloved and bumbling Stanley Baldwin who (conscious of his shortcomings as a statesman) was always trying to resign during his two terms as Prime Minister (1923-24 and 1924-29). Today beloved Stanley Baldwin lives in No. 11 with the determined woman who would never let him resign, good...
...Wilfred John Funk, son of the founder, is titular president but is famed only for light verse which has been published, not by his father's firm, but by Robert M. McRride...
...going begging in South Africa. But see here, what was this? The masthead which had remained unchanged for the past 144 years was all different. Instead of Gothic lettering it was set up in block lettering. And there were no horizontal lines enclosing the date below it. The titular coat of arms was not the same. And to cap that, the type face of the entire paper was different...
...institution. Hale & hearty as he is, he perhaps tires of Boston, of his lavish three-story Italianate house which, built on a rock ledge, is jarred by passing trolleys and trucks. Perhaps Cardinal O'Connell would prefer to spend his remaining days in tranquil Rome, where stands his titular church, ancient San Clemente, which he has beautified at a reputed cost of $100,000, with a marble bust of himself outside...
Bostonians have hoped that, if these things are so and should Cardinal O'Connell return to Rome, his place will be taken by an able, active young priest who was once of nearby Whitman, Mass. Last week this hope was partly realized. Ap pointed to be titular Bishop of Sila and Auxiliary Bishop of Boston was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, for the past seven years the foremost U. S. prelate at the Vatican. Born 43 years ago the son of a Whitman grocer, "Frank" Spellman is recalled by at least one person - a Whitman taxicab driver - as an able...