Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down through the snow-swept passes of Tibet last week drifted reports that yellow-hatted-monks had picked the 14th Dalai Lama, reincarnation of Buddha and successor to the late Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho, temporal ruler of 3,000,000 Tibetans (TIME, Jan. 1). After weighty examination of sacred books and relics, astrological signs and portents, the monks had come upon a babe in the outskirts of Lhasa, who had been born the night the old Dalai Lama died. The infant into whose body the spirit of the Dalai Lama had supposedly passed was to be left with...
...nails) is a North Carolina farmer with eleven House terms behind him. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts (right) is the ranking minority member, the Republican watchdog who would get Mr. Doughton's chair should parties change. Chairman Doughton is shortly to be translated to the Tariff Commission. His probable successor is stalwart, pipe-smoking Democrat Samuel Billingsley Hill. In the picture the gentlemen are cogitating liquor taxes. They decided to up the spirits tax from $1.10 to $2 per gal. and the House swiftly agreed (see p. 15). The Senate group on ways & means is called the Finance Committee, Mississippi...
...choosing Mr. Nichols' successor, President Conant will do well to consider the diverse qualifications needed by a Harvard publicity director. If he is interested primarily in getting more national recognition for Harvard's achievements in research, he will do well to avoid the mistake of getting an able man and then denying him the confidence and authority essential to the accomplishment of his purpose. Furthermore, he will do well to remember that a great part of the publicity director's time is of necessity taken up by routine contacts with the local newspapers. Despite the best efforts of Mr. Nichols...
Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson, who lost his job coaching football at Notre Dame following the team's disastrous season, met his successor Elmer Layden at last week's convention of the American Football Coaches' Association in Chicago. Gripping hands heartily they wished each other luck. Hunk Anderson had just signed a three-year contract to coach at North Carolina State. Then they listened to a discussion of how coaches can safeguard their jobs...
...well that James Aloysius Farley made him vice chairman of the campaign committee. Postmaster General Farley liked him so well that he took him to Washington as his First Assistant. But when Senator Kendrick died and Governor Miller indicated his choice of Joe O'Mahoney as his successor, a group of Wyoming Republicans rose up to question the Governor's legal right to make the appointment. Wyoming law requires a special election if a Senate seat becomes vacant more than a year before the next general election, but allows the Governor to fill the vacancy if Congress...