Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the nation will find the Cosmopolitan an adequate successor to the late White House spokesman is some-what questionable. Somehow the "quality group" rather than the "quantity group" of magazines--but Mr. Coolidge may always choose for himself. One thing, however, is certain, the former chief executive is going into print. His way of doing it is fully in keeping with a certain democratic spirit of the times, a way that insures Mr. Coolidge reaching a considerable mass of his recent supporters. But there is about it all something that suggests less the literary debut of a former president...
...engines burn fuel oil. But Diesel engines are ponderous. Packard's triumph is that its engineers have designed a light-weight Diesel-type motor that burns cheap fuel oil efficiently, and is air-cooled. Although it is a radial, its invention gives promise of an "in-line" air-cooled successor...
...Barrymores, though actually of Hampden's age (John is now 47; Lionel, 50; Hampden, 48) seemed too young. Otis Skinner seemed ruled out by his hostility to the Actors' Equity Association. So Walter Hampden really had no rival as "Uncle John" Drew's successor...
...newspaper that Henry Lee Shattuck has been chosen Treasurer of Harvard. Until the appointment of Charles Francis Adams as Secretary of the Navy has been confirmed by Mr. Hoover, Mr. Adams will not resign his post as Treasurer. Until he has resigned, there can be no election of a successor, and no official statement on the question...
University authorities have refused to confirm or deny rumors current yesterday that H. L. Shattuck '01 would succeed C. F. Adams '88 as treasurer of the University. No official announcement of Mr. Adams's resignation or of the naming of his successor will be made until after Tuesday when the Senate will take action on the appointments of Mr. Hoover...