Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down on his bed at No. 5 Avenue Victor-Emmanuel III, Paris and put a bullet through his heart, there has been little but grim news for holders of Kreuger & Toll securities. Last week some of them had a new shock: Manhattan's Marine Midland Trust Co., successor trustee of Kreuger & Toll secured debenture 55, announced that on Sept. 1 it would distribute $25 to each holder of a $1,000 debenture...
...brick house, No. 265. Some of the moppets ran up to help with her luggage. They had heard that she was coming, knew that she was Miss Hall-Miss Helen Hall -the new Head Worker. She had come up from Philadelphia to run the Henry Street Settlement as successor to Lillian Wald who founded it 40 years ago. When Lillian Wald, a well-born Jewess who had been studying nursing and medicine, first visited the squalid East Side and saw a sick woman lying neglected in a stinkhole, she resolved to do something about it. With a friend she moved...
Firmly pursuing this destiny, Marshal Muto sat in Changchun, subsisting on his Spartan diet of rice, rice, rice, while his sub-commanders conquered the Chinese province of Jehol, added it to Manchukuo (TIME, March 13). Like Marshal Muto his successor General Hishikari is con sidered not a military genius but a safe & sane commander able to guide the exuberance of junior officers and to build up Manchukuo as a state...
When the American Osteopathic Association, meeting in Milwaukee last week, reached the point of electing a successor to President Victor William Purdy they chose an osteopath more typical than any of the foregoing. Perrin Thacher Wilson, the elect, unable to enter Harvard regularly, studied mathematics there as a special student. Meanwhile he earned his living as chauffeur for a lumber dealer. Later he delivered cakes and studied automobile repairing, eventually entered the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville...
Night before Mahatma Gandhi was to begin a march across India preaching "individual civil disobedience" he and a group of his disciples were jailed at Ahmedabad by order of stern Viceroy Earl Willingdon, successor to mild Baron Irwin who as Viceroy permitted Mr. Gandhi to achieve world prominence by his famed "salt march to the sea" (TIME, March...