Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike Senator Morrow, who lived 38 hours beyond an important deadline (TIME, Oct. 12), Senator Caraway died two days too soon to help his party. By law the Governor of Arkansas may not now appoint his successor but must order a special election between 60 and 120 days after his death. The empty Caraway seat insures Republican control of the Senate when it sits...
...drenched Riviera villa, high above champagne-soused Nice, lives the ex-Caliph of Islam who has no successor. Deposed and physically ousted from Turkey in 1924 by agnostic President Mustafa Kemal, Caliph Abdul Medjid Effendi is still to millions of Moslems "Commander of the Faithful" and "Viceregent of Allah...
...president of the A. D. A., succeeding Dr. Robert Todd Oliver of Philadelphia, is Dr. Martin Dewey of Manhattan, first New Yorker to have the honor. His successor next year will be Dr. G. Walter Dittmar of Chicago...
...Britain, a dangerous duty little reported in the British Press. In the army leather-lunged Lord Trenchard was known as "Boom," because of his reputed ability to turn an entire brigade into a column of fours without the aid of a megaphone or relayed commands. Last week Lord Boom, successor to Lord Byng, spared the ears of the Press by saying nothing at all, sailed for Canada on a business trip. He is expected to take up his duties at Scotland Yard...
...wish to resign," said he, "but the difficulty of forming a new Government makes it imperative for me to continue indefinitely. However, the hour has arrived when you gentlemen must begin to consider my successor...