Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the election of a successor to Professor Baker is a matter of more or less moment to every theatregoer, the Harvard overseers may excuse me for horning in. Mr. Eaton, I think, would be an ideal schoolmaster, and I have but one other suggestion to make. Why not an affiliation between Harvard and the Theatre Guild? Here is an institution, with an expert faculty, representing every branch of the dramatic art, including the audiences. It is an earnest organization, and it has at heart the improvement of the stage and its patrons. It might have time to join with...
Even more surprising than Mr. Hughes' retirement was the naming of Frank B. Kellogg, as his successor. Like Mr. Hughes, who rose to prominence as an investigator of gas and insurance companies in Manhattan, Mr. Kellogg attained his reputation by prosecution for the Government of the Western Paper Trust (of which he secured the dissolution), by a far-reaching investigation of the Union Pacific Railroad under E. H. Harriman and by prosecution of the Standard Oil Company for President Roosevelt (dissolution also secured). While Mr. Hughes was becoming New York's Governor, Supreme Court member, presidential candidate...
...Jean Herbette, accompanied by Mme. Herbette and an embassy staff, left Paris for Moscow to take up his duties as first French Ambassador to Bolshevik Russia, successor to the last French Ambassador to Imperial Russia, M. Maurice Paléologue...
...bout was the final elimination tournament begun some months ago by the New York State Athletic Commission to determine a successor to Johny Dundee,* former titleholder, who had been forced (TIME Sept. 1) to admit he could no longer scale his weight down to 126-lb. maximum allowed for featherweights. Kaplan hit his way to victory in the ninth of 15 scheduled rounds, winning every round...
Those who looked for quick, if not wholesale changes in the Cabinet after President Coolidge was confirmed in office for four years more by the November election, have been surprised. Only one Cabinet change now appears imminent-the appointment of a successor to Secretary of Agriculture Howard M. Gore, who is to be inaugurated as Governor of West Virginia...