Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere, brother and successor to the late famed Lord Northcliffe, heads the new group. He announced, last week, that it will exploit the news service of his Daily Mail and the picture service of his Daily Mirror by enlarging both to serve a to-be-founded chain of afternoon papers in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow. Thus Lord Rothermere proclaims that he will enter cutthroat competition with the numerous afternoon newspapers already owned in the provinces by the famed Berry brothers (TIME...
Rothermere. "American women are clever, beautiful and the best dressed in the world, but they have too few babies. In touring the country one sees too few children. With restricted immigration in effect, this looks bad for future population." So said Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere, brother and successor to the late British newspaper titan, Lord Northcliffe. Having spoken, Lord Rothermere embarked recently at Manhattan for England...
...Barton, G. C. Barber, and Dr. E. M. North, representing Yenching: and R. W. Boyden '85, Dean W. B. Donham '98, and R. S. Green '91, representing the Hall Estate. The late Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 had also been named a director for Harvard. His successor has not yet been appointed "Mr. Boyden is the chairman of the board...
...success of a track team it is necessary to develop not stars but a large body of runners, taking men who perhaps have never run before and, overcoming their initial discouragements, bring before them the motto of the Harvard track team--Progress." Following Mr. Bingham, C. W. Martin, his successor as head track coach, made a speech in which he stated his intentions of carrying out his predecessor's policy and of concentrating on team work rather than on individual brilliance...
...Company is the successor to the name, organization and traditions of Orville and Wilbur Wright, who made the first successful mechanical flight in 1903- at Kittyhawk, N. C. (See col. 2.) They could get no financial backing...