Word: successor
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After such action, the rest of the Legion's business was strictly anticlimax. St. Louis was picked for next year's meeting and a successor to National Commander Edward A. Hayes was named. He was Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr., 39. of San Francisco. Commander Belgrano is the first Legionary who never got to France with the A. E. F. to reach this topnotch position in the organization. He entered Legion activities when he became a founder of Galileo Post in his hometown. A vice president of Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association, president of Pacific National Fire...
...patness of Lost Horizons' plot is impaired by the complicated temporal sequence of its 20 scenes, the over-intricate arrangement of the characters. But if Lost Horizons is not likely to be a satisfactory successor to The Green Pastures in Laurence Rivers' (Rowland Stebbins) series of supernatural moralities, it will not be any fault of its leading lady. Jane Wyatt contrives to spill none of its spiritual qualities while adding considerably to its physical appeal...
...King of Sardinia was, like all the Bourbons, a fool, the Portuguese Queen a Braganza and therefore by nature an idiot, The successor to Frederic of Prussia...
...with highest honors, and took his M.A. at Boone in 1915, his M.A. at Harvard University in 1919, and his Ph.D. from London University. He has been a member of the staff of Boone College since his graduation there. In 1929 he became president of Central China College, successor to Boone College, after being its acting president for two years...
...Annals of Physics. His General Theory of Relativity was published in the midst of the War (1916), the Unitary Field Theory 13 years later. Though only twelve men in the world are popularly supposed to understand Einstein's theory, the world now regards him as the successor of Galileo and Newton. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics...