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Nicholas (GRAND DUKE named)
GRAND DUKE, named by the Council of Russian Monarchists rightful successor to the late Czar Nicholas II, November 22, 1922.
BIOGRAPHICAL CONTINUATIONS 62 BLOOD PRESSURE PAGE, WALTER HINES. His letters, returned to Canton in triumph early published in 1922, form a valuable contribution both to permanent literature and to the history of Anglo-American relationships during the World War.
PEPPER, GEORGE WHARTON, elected to the Senate, 1922, for the regular term, 1923-29.
PINCHOT, GIFFORD, in 1922 received the regular Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania and elected by a large majority. was PITNEY, MAHLON, retired from the Supreme Court on account of ill health January, 1923. in 1923.
SUTHERLAND, HOWARD, defeated for re-election to the Senate, 1922.
TAFT, WILLIAM H. In 1922, he visited England for the purpose of making a personal study of English courts and judicial methods.
THOMAS, AUGUSTUS, appointed, July, 1922, executive chairman of the Theatrical Producers' Association, an organization including nine-tenths of all the producing managers of America. TOWNSEND, CHARLES ELROY, defeated for re-election to the U. S. Senate, Nov- PITTMAN, KEY, re-elected to the Sen- ember, 1922, largely as a consequence ate, 1922, for the term 1923-29.
PLUNKETT, SIR HORACE C., named senator of the Irish Free State, December, 1922.
POINCARE, RAYMOND, premier of France for the second time, 1922. Published "Origins of the War" (1922), an account drawn from personal and official sources.
POINDEXTER, MILES, renominated for the Senate, 1922, but failed of re-election by a narrow margin.
POMERENE, ATLEE, defeated for re-election to the Senate, 1922. REED, JAMES A., renominated and reelected to the Senate, 1922, on an antiprohibition platform. RHONDDA, VISCOUNTESS, finally denied a seat in the British House of Lords by vote of an enlarged committee May, 1922, the decision affecting more than twenty women holding peerages.
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D., elected president of the American Construction Council (q. v.), 1922.
SIMS, WILLIAM SNOWDEN, retired from the U. S. Navy October 14, 1922, on completing his sixty-fourth year.
SMITH, ALFRED EMANUEL, elected governor of New York for the second time, November, 1922.
SMOOT, REED, appointed a member of the Foreign Debt Funding Commission, 1922.
STRAUS, OSCAR S., reminiscences "Under Four Administrations," published in 1922.
SUN-YAT-SEN, head of successive South China governments, 1917-22. In August, 1922, he was temporarily overthrown by his former military leader, Chan Chiung- Ming, but his influence remained strong in both South and North China and he of the Newberry issue in Michigan.
TRAMMEL, PARK, re-elected Senator, 1923-29.
VENIZELOS, ELEUTHERIOS. Following the disastrous defeat of the Greek forces in Asia Minor, 1922, he was hastily named by the revolutionary Committee to act for Greece in London and Paris, subsequently representing his country at the Near Eastern Conference at Lausanne.
WHITE, WILLIAM ALLEN. In 1922, he came into national prominence for a time for alleged violation of the Kansas Industrial Relations Court Act, in having displayed a placard of sympathy with the strikers in the railway shopmen's strike.
WILLIAM II, EX-KAISER, published "Historical Tables," 1922, containing an account of European events and diplomatic history from 1878 to 1914. On Nov. 5, 1922, he was married at Doorn to Princess Hermione von Schoenaich- Carolath, a widow of noble, but not royal, birth.
WORK, DR. HUBERT, transferred by President Harding from the postmastergeneralship to the Department of the Interior March 4, 1923.
WU-TING-FANG, in his last years, associated with Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen in the South China government established at Canton. In 1922 he was offered the post of premier of China under a program of general reunion, but his death occurred June 23 of that year before he was able to reply to the offer.
YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER, nominated to the Senate of the Irish Free State, December, 1922. (See also NECROLOGY).