Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous classes made the most of the many opportunities afforded by the Union for broadening social and intellectual pursuits. It is only natural that their successor in the Yard and the Union, the Class of 1966, will wish to be the same, having the same end of class of 1908, will wish to do the same, having the same end of class unification through social contact in view, even though employing means to that and more in conformity with its class individuality...
...second time President Roosevelt gave a job to one of Herbert Hoover's aides. Riding to the Capitol for the inauguration on March 4, 1933, President Hoover asked his successor to find a job for White House Secretary Walter Newton. President Roosevelt named Newton to the Home Loan Bank Board for one year (TIME, June 19, 1933). Last week President Roosevelt named George Akerson, President Hoover's first secretary, to a $6,000 job as a member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals...
Devout Catholics, the King, Queen and Princess were greeted by that blackest of blacks, Zita, widow of His Apostolic Majesty the late Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary who reigned for two years as successor to Franz Josef, died deposed and broken-hearted at Funchal, Madeira. Last week Zita's well-trained Habsburg retainers did meticulous royal honors to the sovereigns of Italy, who behaved in every way as if their hostess were still an Em press. Getting down to brass tacks with royal directness, they proceeded to dicker, with Princess Maria sitting in, over whether Maria should marry Zita...
...left Countess d'Agoult and met her successor, the cigar-smoking Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein. Although love affairs continued to play through his life like tarantellas, she remained his nominal mistress until his death. Only a last minute refusal from Rome to grant her a divorce prevented their marriage...
Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg: My late departed father always recognized Adolf Hitler as his immediate successor. . . . Thus there comes to you, O German people, from the Field Marshal's tower in the Tannenberg Monument [tomb of von Hindenburg] this call: "Rally around and stand united behind Germany's Leader! Let all the world know that an indissoluble tie firmly unites the German people...