Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Middletown, Conn., on June 5, another young man will undertake a task of magnitude. On that day, as successor to her late President, William Arnold Shanklin, Wesleyan College will induct the incumbent (1918-25) of the presidency of Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.), Dr. James L. McConaughy, 37, Yale graduate, Rotarian, onetime Professor of English and Education at Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Knox...
Lenin died and, allegedly, designated Trotzky as his logical successor. But there was too much jealousy in the Bolshevik camp to permit of so easy a solution. Rykov, a moderate, succeeded Lenin. Trotzky remained War Lord, wrote a book called 1917, made several speeches in which he attacked the policy of the Government...
...Emma and Alex: he still does believe in the regime of the Soviets, but avers that they are being run by a mere 18,000 people who are fast becoming an aristocracy. He shows himself to be a partisan of Trotzky, says that Lenin designated Trotzky as his successor on his death bed and, in the same place, cursed Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev, the present rulers of Russia...
...brought in on Norris sacrifice. The three run lead proved to be only a beginning and when the Freshmen came to bat again in the eighth they started off by making three runs in a row before anyone went out. Haley was taken out of the box, but his successor Lane was hardly treated with more consideration. He was first touched for a home run by Chase and then for two triples in succession by Pollard and Lord. When the dust cleared away nine runs were up for the inning, bringing the final tally to 16 runs...
...They don't know the difference between a sculptor and a tombstone-cutter," said Sculptor Borglum of the committeemen of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. Impressed by the jibe, the committeemen held a session, last week, to find a successor to Borglum. They considered, one by one, the names of 100 famed sculptors, warily blackballed all whose reputations disclosed the least hint of tombstone-cutting, chose, at length, a Virginian sculptor, Augustus Lukeman...