Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nothing has been said as yet concerning a successor to Dr. Richards. His assistant at present is Dr. N. C. Browder...
...figure, his cane been familiar at Democratic councils. His newspaper had thrived, been sold in 1929 to Scripps-Howard for a reported $6,000,000. He wanted to retire to his home on Buffalo's fashionable Delaware Avenue. He announced his support of Oliver Cabana Jr. as his successor in the Democratic leadership of Erie County. He ex plained...
...Presidential canvass of 1924, made many a vote with her sound political sense. Stateswoman though she was, she would never accept public office. When Senator La Follette died in 1925, she refused. Progressive pleadings to take his seat at the Capitol, designated "Young Bob" as his father's successor, continued to serve as an adviser of quiet wisdom...
Near the city of Cienfuegos a Federal patrol swooped on a little drugstore and dragged out one more leader of the revolution from his burrow beneath the counter. He was Col. Aurelio Hevia, a successor to the imprisoned General Mario Menocal. U. S. Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim notified the State Department, perhaps a little prematurely, that with the failure of the Gibara filibuster and the capture of the most prominent leaders of the revolution, President Machado's troubles were as good as over...
...soother of parents, information bureau, helper of the needy, social and moral adviser. A year ago he reached 67, age limit for university officials, was asked to stay on until the University's new president, Harry Woodburn Chase, was installed. Also, they wished him to break in his successor, Fred H. Turner. This April he announced his retirement at a meeting of U.S. deans of men in Gatlinsburg, Tenn. Last week he closed up his desk and said: "I'm not tired of the job. I just grew tired of waiting for students to think up new alibis...