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  • Enh. This is going to be similar to Bernanke – the Secretaryship of a department will devolve.

    Matthew Yglesias » What if Bernanke Isn’t Reconfirmed 2010

  • In 1944 he helped found the ANC Youth League, whose Programme of Action was adopted by the ANC in 1949Mandela soon impressed his peers by his disciplined work and consistent effort and was elected to the Secretaryship of the Youth League in 1947.

    The Revolutionary Alliance in South Africa 2008

  • Chancellor chose to kick him upstairs into the Secretaryship of State, rather than trust him with either the election or the management of the new parliament.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • He was then advanced to the Permanent Secretaryship of Her

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

  • The scheme had already reached the stage in which it was permissible to hire an office and engage a secretary, and he had been deputed to expound the scheme to Mary, and make her an offer of the Secretaryship, to which, as a matter of principle, a small salary was attached.

    Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf 2004

  • Temple was forty-six when he refused a Secretaryship of

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Secretaryship, which, falling to him naturally, would raise his emoluments to more than double that amount.

    Balzac 2003

  • He was elected to the Secretaryship of the Youth League in 1947.

    A document presented by Nelson Mandela to P.W. Botha before their meeting on 5 July 1989 1989

  • Evidently the young writer himself “had visions of parliamentary oratory, and of a successful debut in the House of Commons, with perhaps an offer from the Minister, a Secretaryship of State, and even the Premiership itself in the distance.”

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

  • There is a tradition that, having already conceived a lively interest in the ecclesiastical and agrarian problems of Ireland, Mr. Gladstone had set his affections on the Chief Secretaryship.

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

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