Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motored to the Capitol on March 4 for the inaugural of his successor, President Hoover turned anxiously to Franklin Roosevelt with a personal patronage problem. It had to do with Walter Hughes Newton of the White House secretariat. Born & bred in Minneapolis, Mr. Newton had been elected in 1918 to the House where by his wits he had worked himself up to a position of Republican importance. When Mr. Hoover took office in 1929, he felt the need for better contacts with the House leadership, persuaded Representative Newton to resign his seat and join the White House staff...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell, worthy successor of Leverett,--men who filled the bowls of the ancients with new wine. Presented by the teachers of Arts and Sciences, June 13, 1933, in token of their affection...
After President Edward Dickinson Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co. consented, as a loyal, energetic alumnus and trustee, to act as Princeton's president ad interim (TIME, May 30, 1932), the Princeton trustees continued to search the field and their feelings for a permanent successor to Dr. John Grier Hibben. Names mentioned ranged all the way from Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover down through a roster of eminent Princeton alumni to handsome young James Henderson Douglas, class of 1920, who made a name for himself as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the March banking crisis. When the trustees...
Last week all the Princeton deans resigned, as is customary with a change of presidents. All were reappointed, one moved up. Faculty Dean Eisenhart, able mathematician, becomes dean of the Graduate School to succeed Dr. Augustus Trowbridge who resigned because of ill health. Successor as dean of the faculty is urbane, witty Robert Kilburn Root, English department chairman...
...knowledge that he had been elected Governor of Nebraska a third time. After his lungs cleared, heart trouble kept "Brother Charley" on his back until last week. In March died Robert Beecher Howell, Nebraska's Republican Senator, but Governor Bryan was too ill to appoint a Democratic successor; the State had to get along month after month with George William Norris as its lone Senator. Ambitious to sit in the Senate, "Brother Charley" pondered ways & means of appointing himself to the vacancy. His doctors told him he would never reach Washington alive, and the Senate would not swear...