Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Confederate veteran and a Roman Catholic. Melville W. Fuller of Illinois was neither. WILLIAM H. KELLER Judge of the Superior Court of Pa. Of course, as Judge Keller points out, the attributes erroneously attached to the name of Chief Jus tice Fuller were really those of his eminent successor, the late Chief Justice White...
Gompers. A memorial session for Samuel Gompers was held at which his associates paid him tribute. Said President Green, his successor: "As Washington was the father of his country, so was Samuel Gompers the father of the American Federation of Labor. As Lincoln was the savior of his country, so was he the savior of the Federation in the many crises through which it passed. . . . His soul goes marching...
...body to the grave of failure. His gay parade was tinsel which the lights of critical Manhattan tarnished and destroyed. Careless and floodingly he wrote; careless they killed him. And now but for the pleasant pageant of their mockery of a funeral, they are quite willing to inspect his successor. Why did he live? Why did he die? He lived because there is even in the most sophisticated heart the occasional warmth of the chambermaid's love for the "Mayfairs" of life. He dies because there are too many who can satisfy that love fully as well as the affable...
...management of its merchant marine was last week again subordinated to a quarrel among the managers. The Shipping Board mounted its rostrum and announced the removal of Admiral Leigh C. Palmer as Chairman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation and the appointment of Elmer E. Crowley of Massachusetts as his successor. Admiral Palmer was offered a subordinate post and declined it. His exit was followed by the exit of a number of his subordinates, some following him out of loyalty, others ousted by the Board "for the sake of efficiency...
...first time in 40 years the convention assembled without the dominating presence of Samuel Gompers in the chair. But William Green, his successor, seized the iron-handled hammer (a regular gavel had been forgotten) and pounded the desk, opening a session that was expected to last for two weeks. The chief events...