Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From North Dakota came reports that the probable successor of the late Senator Edwin F. Ladd will be Rizpah Sprogle Ladd, his widow-by appointment of Governor Sorlie...
Michigan University last week announced its choice of a successor to Poet Robert Bridges, English Laureate, as incumbent of the Michigan Fellowship in Creative Arts, a chair instituted in 1921 by the late President Marion LeRoy Burton and first filled by Poet Robert Frost. The chosen was Author Jesse Lynch Williams of Manhattan, onetime (1921) President of the Authors' League, Pulitzer Prize winner (1917, for his play, Why Marry?), novelist and short-story writer of the same kindly school as his fellow Princetonian, Booth Tarkington, and his good friend Julian Street. Mr. Williams, a calm, beetle-browed gentleman...
...Other callers at White Court included: Admiral and Mrs. Eberle (for dinner); William C. Deniing, head of the Civil Service Commission (to discuss a successor for Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener - see WOMEN) ; Congressman William E. Hull of Illinois, shortly to sail for Buenos Aires as a member of the Pan-American Highway Commission; John Hays Hammond Jr., inventor (to discuss commercial aviation-see AERONAUTICS) ; Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent; Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget; .Secretary Hoover, recently returned from the West, to present Mr. Coolidge with an invitation to visit California; Senator George H. Moses...
...Moscow, last week, 6,500 cadets received commissions in the Red Army. To celebrate this event the new War Lord Frunse, successor to deposed Leon Trotzky (TIME, May 18 et seq.) issued a special order to the Army and Navy...
President Edward A. Birge (in efect) : "This will shut the university off from higher education.* It is not fair to my successor, President-elect Glenn Frank, for it commits him to a policy about which he knows nothing...