Word: successor
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Died, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, 61, son of the late Rev. Lyman Abbott and his successor as editor-in-chief of The Outlook (1923-28), author (Religious Life in America, On the Training of Parents); at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson...
Meanwhile in Manila last week there were signs of a rapprochement between Governor General Dwight Filley Davis and the native Legislature. The report that Governor Davis would resign Jan. 1 to join his wife in Paris, coupled with speculation as to his successor, disturbed Filipino politicos who feared the next Governor General would be less friendly, more dictatorial. This fear prompted Sergio Osmena, president pro tem, of the Senate to declare: "Everybody knows of the continuation of Governor Davis in office at great sacrifice on his part. Because of the invalid condition of Mrs. Davis, the Governor feels the necessity...
...posthumous tribute: sainthood. Though eight residents of North America have been canonized (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), there are as yet no native-born U. S. saints. In 1880 the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, then Archbishop of Baltimore, began the movement to have Mother Seton canonized; his successor Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley continued it. In 1911 the first petition was sent to Rome. Since then the case has not been perceptibly advanced...
...Hearst's International Magazine Co., which gave him editorial supervision of Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Motor, and Motor Boating; as of Oct. 1; after nearly 13 years employment; to become chairman of Richard R. Smith Inc., book publishers, which he organized last year. His Cosmopolitan successor: Harry Payne Burton, 45, onetime editor of McCall's Magazine, currently editor of Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture and consulting editor of Liberty...
Virginia politicians last week demanded of Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard why he went out of the State to pick a successor for Virginia's first and only State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Ennion Gifford Williams who, 61, died last month. Governor Pollard usually is amiable. But continuous political pestering on this subject has put a chip on his shoulder. His thin lips snapped this retort...