Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Mr. Farrell: "I firmly believe that the time has now arrived for my successor to be appointed in order to establish the management upon a more permanent foundation composed of younger men." This contrasted sharply with his attitude last October. Revived was talk of friction between Mr. Farrell and some other members of the Finance Committee (Myron Charles Taylor, John Pierpont Morgan). In May Mr. Farrell denounced the steel industry for wage cutting, called it "a pretty cheap sort of business," but in October his own company cut wages 10%,. Recently there have been rumors of a further...
...successor was named to fill historic Jim Farrell's post. If Steel's tradition is followed, a man trained in the trade will be elected. Mentioned as such candidates were Eugene Peeples Thomas, vice president of U. S. Steel, and I. Lamont Hughes, president of Steel's biggest subsidiary, Carnegie Steel Co. Outside possibility was Sewell Lee Avery, famed Chicago president of U. S. Gypsum, and a director of U. S. Steel, who was last month selected to head Montgomery Ward & Co. with whose affairs the House of Morgan is also concerned...
...Harvard), famed classicist; as president of Amherst College; to become professor of Latin & Greek at Harvard. An earnest, retiring pundit, Dr. Pease is little known to his students. He facially resembles Amherst's Trustee Calvin Coolidge, who is spoken of (without much reason) as his successor...
...second time in ten days one Harvard graduate has been named by President Hoover to succeed another in an important government post. The Japanese government has signified that it finds J. C. Grew '02 an acceptable successor to W. Cameron Forbes '92, present ambassador in Tokyo, who will remain at his post for several weeks. In the Phillippine Islands, Theodore Roosevelt '08 has succeeded Dwight F. Davis '00 as Governor General...
...which I am acquainted." Author- Professor Nock, born 59 years ago in Scranton, Pa., is a tall, rosy-cheeked pundit who has gotten out a biography of Thomas Jefferson and a definitive edition (with Catherine Rose Wilson) of Rabelais. He edited The Freeman, later contributed a column in its successor The New Freeman. During the War he was secretary to Minister to Belgium Brand Whitlock. Though he holds M.A. and LL.D. (Hon.) degrees from St. Stephen's and a Ph.D. from Leipzig, Dr. Nock dislikes being called "Doctor." Believing U. S. institutions too generous with doctorates, he calls...