Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese habit is to keep the death of a national figure secret for hours or even days, the idea being that his successor can be quietly appointed by the Sublime Emperor in the interval, without too much influential squabbling or eruptions of popular unrest. One day last week studious Emperor Hirohito and shy Empress Nagako dispatched to mud-walled Changchun, the sleazy capital of their puppet state Manchukuo, a great ceremonial basket of fruit, traditional Japanese gift to the dying...
...Manchus" but Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto, was already dead. Probably he was. Certainly he died "of jaundice with complications" (according to the Japanese War Office) before the imperial fruit arrived. In double-quick time Emperor Hirohito created the dead marshal posthumously a baron and named as his successor another member of the super-militaristic Satsuma faction which dominates the Japanese Army, grizzled old General Takashi Hishikari of the Supreme War Council...
Gyrations of the stockmarket had made Coolidge the saint of prosperity and Hoover the scapegoat of hard times. Their Democratic successor professed to be completely indifferent to stocks' ups & downs. In fact President Roosevelt seemed almost glad about last week's shoot-the-chutes. He felt that values had been climbing at an abnormally rapid rate, with speculators whooping up prices for quick easy profits. This rise had hampered the progress of the New Deal. Industries, beguiled by "prosperity" stock quotations, were reluctant to submit recovery codes to Washington. A thoroughgoing deflation of overspeculation seemed wholesome and proper...
Spectators at the women's swimming championships at Jones Beach, L. I. anticipated results like these last week. They anticipated also that the meet would produce some sort of successor to Helene Madison, who like Georgia Coleman turned professional after last year's Olympics. Nonetheless, no one except possibly her coach, Jack Scarry, foresaw the exploits of a mop-haired, broad-shouldered girl named Lenore Kight, who (like Josephine McKim and Susan Laird of the 1928 Olympic team) was entered from the Carnegie Library Athletic Club of Homestead...
From Palo Alto, Calif, went no such good-natured protestations from him with whom Citizen Curtis went down to defeat last November. Instead, onetime President Herbert Hoover grimly kept to himself his opinion of his successor in the White House, left his followers to wonder if he would try to be re-elected in 1936.* On July 29 in the Bohemian Grove near San Francisco many of the nation's tycoons will caper at the annual Bohemian Club outing. To be his guest at that famed revel Citizen Hoover asked Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, a bulwark...