Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Successor. Wall Street doubted that a Dupont-either T. Coleman Dupont or Pierre Samuel Dupont -whose company has bought much U. S. Steel stock (TIME, Aug. 8) would succeed Judge Gary as U. S. Steel Chairman. Whom had Judge Gary recommended? No one publicly and explicitly, though theory mongers found it exciting to point out an article only last month in Collier's Weekly wherein Judge Gary saluted Calvin Coolidge and said he would have been an outstanding success in any business...
Died. John Dillon, M. P., 76, renowned, dynamic, and strapping Irish politician; in London, after a major abdominal operation. A lifelong friend of the Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons," he was also the great contemporary and successor to Charles Stewart Parnell in the finally successful fight of the Irish proletariat against the abuses of Irish landlordism...
...arms of Queen Marie. "I feel so tired," said Ferdinand, "so tired. . . and yet I feel no pain." Thus six years of acute suffering from a cancerous growth were ended, at last, for His Majesty Ferdinand Victor Albert Mainrad von Hohen-zollern-Sigmaringen, King of Rumania, and successor to the Tsars of Russia as Defender of the Holy Sepulchre...
...successor, President Dr. Hernando Siles, took office 18 months...
...week seen in the streets of Rapid City, as Mrs. Coolidge had again become her own housekeeper. For Miss Ellen Riley, who came out from Washington to act as housekeeper at the State Lodge, fell ill, was sent to Rochester, Minn., for an operation. Instead of appointing a temporary successor, Mrs. Coolidge herself assumed the duties of directing the State Lodge domestics. She began her new work by rising early and picking a bouquet of wild flowers for the State Lodge breakfast table...