Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer home Mrs. Hert was "hopeful" that the National Committee would pick Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania as her successor as No. 2 driver of the steamroller. Marion Marjorie Scranton, tall, stylish daughter-in-law of the family that founded and named Scranton, was once (in a nominating speech) called "God's greatest gift to mankind." She is attractive; she is dashing?too much so, according to conservative Pennsylvania politicians who gossiped critically about cigaret smoking and such like. But above all she is a "good politician," now stepping with cheerful speed from local to national fame...
...surface explanation: As a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Edge was needed through the special session to "help" President Hoover on tariff revision.* The real political reason: If Mr. Edge resigned from the Senate before Oct. 5. New Jersey voters under the law would pick his successor at a general election on Nov. 5. This would mean a cat-&-dog fight among New Jersey Republicans, who are split. The split might be wide enough to let a Demo crat through. If Senator Edge resigned after Oct. 5, Governor Larson, not the People, would choose his successor, thus...
Died. John Burchard Fine, 66, of Princeton, N. J., headmaster of Princeton Preparatory School since 1888; in Princeton. Educator Fine's successor will probably be his son, Harry B. Fine, present acting headmaster...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Hugh Birckhead, 52, rector of Emanuel Church, Baltimore, onetime assistant, later successor, of the Rev. Dr. William Stephen Rainsford (longtime [1882-1906] rector of St. George's Church, Manhattan, worship-place of John Pierpont Morgan et al); in Newport...
...Mills Campus. The Stradivarius Quartet, successor to the Flonzaleys (TIME, March 11), has begun a series of 28 concerts on the campus of Mills College (Oakland, Calif.), are also teaching at the Mills College Summer School of Music...