Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disraeli of America." The Disraeli image broadened when President Roosevelt invited him up to Hyde Park the third day he was home. Last week, when his onetime lieutenant resigned from NRA, Wall Street was offering even money that Hugh Johnson's boss would be Hugh Johnson's successor. Recalled was this Baruchism: "I've been like a good athlete who is always ready and always in training. And then some God-damned fool drops the ball and . . . they say, 'Baruch's a good fellow. Give him the ball.' " So many people believed that Baruch...
...arrears. The vestry asked him to resign. When he declined, a vestry committee went to the bishop. Three weeks ago Bishop Huston, whose son Wilber was the first ''prodigy" given a Thomas A. Edison college scholarship (TIME, Aug. 14, 1929), removed Rector Mook and appointed a successor...
Wolfgang Kohler, foremost member of the school of Gestalt psychology, and professor of Philosophy and Director of the Psychological Institute at Berlin, will deliver this year the William James Lectures in Philosophy and Psychology at Harvard. Professor Kohler holds, as successor the famous psychologist, Stumpf, the most important European post in psychology, a position to which he was appointed in 1921 when he was only thirty-four years...
...Great Waltz dramatizes the son's ambition and despair before the great night at Dommayer's, his suspicions of his father's jealousy, his waverings between music and marriage, and ends at Dommayer's with the father proudly waltzing to his son's and successor's music. The plot is intelligent, simple and reasonably true to history. The music has been spared the usual interpolations and "improvements." A chorus of 100. a ballet of 40, an orchestra of 54 supply background for the theme...
Resigned. New York City's Commissioner of Police, Major General John Francis O'Ryan. Reasons: differences of opinion with Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. His successor: onetime Chief Inspector Lewis Joseph Valentine...