Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover had had some trouble in finding a successor of sufficient calibre to Charles Gates Dawes at the Court of St. James's. Walter Evans Edge, U. S. Ambassador to France, it was reported, had declined promotion to this No. 1 diplomatic post because Mrs. Edge preferred Paris to London. Mr. Dawes. it was said, wanted to see his good old friend Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois given the job but somewhere a hitch had occurred. So President Hoover turned to Mr. Mellon, gently pushed his 76-year-old Secretary of the Treasury upstairs into the foreign service...
Even three weeks ago such an article would not have been allowed to appear. With at least one point in the article Baron Shidehara's successor, Foreign Minister Yoshizawa, seemed in agreement last week: China was not a power to be considered in any way. After a long week- end conference the Foreign Office announced to the Western Powers its new plan for China: The five most important Chinese cities, Tientsin, Tsingtao. Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, were to be taken over by the Powers, who would establish around them neutral zones 15 to 20 miles wide from which all Chinese soldiers...
...Successor to the more famed Eden Musee which ran for 30 years in Manhattan's West 2nd Street and was among the first cinema exhibitors (Bluebeard, in color). Most famed of all wax works, Madame Tussaud's in London, burned...
...intense is Louisiana partisanship that Governor Long dared not relinquish his State office to take his Senate seat lest his enemies seize and destroy his political organization. His hope was to continue his rule from Washington. Therefore, to be his successor at Baton Rouge he picked Oscar Kelly Allen, 49, red-faced, grey-haired chairman of the State Highway Commission and lifelong Long man. A country boy who taught school, ran a saw mill, took up politics, Mr. Allen hunts duck, fishes, says little, likes to stay at home. A Long boast: "I can sell anybody anything." During the primary...
...student secretary in 1888 when he was graduated from Cornell. Dr. Mott resigned last November as "general secretary" of the International Committee (TIME, Nov. 16). Because many Y. M. C. A. leaders are bright, aggressive Northerners, some were surprised to learn last week that Dr. Mott's successor was a young man who had not only been born in Mississippi but had lived there most of his life. Nevertheless, Y. M. C. A. has long been aware of 37-year-old Francis Stuart Harmon: for the last two years as the youngest president the National Council ever...