Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturally this shift was not accomplished without strife in the Army. No secret in Washington is the fact that ever since able little Oscar Westover crashed to his death last year (TIME, Oct. 3), his successor has had to wage a friendly struggle with Chief of Staff Malin Craig...
Died. Dr. Miron Cristea, 70, Patriarch of the Rumanian Greek Orthodox Church, Premier of Rumania since February 1938; of heart disease; at Cannes, France. Successor to Jew-baiter Octavian Goga as nominal head of King Carol II's Government, Premier Cristea issued Rumania's enlightened "Minorities Statute" (TIME...
...Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin, received Mr. Bullitt as the first U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Entering upon his job there with high hopes of cultivating real U. S.-Russian friendship, the Ambassador experienced a long series of personal disappointments and disillusionments. In 1936 he got himself transferred to Paris, likes it much better...
Hungarian politics took a fantastic turn fortnight ago when anti-Semitic Premier Béla von Imrédy resigned, ostensibly because he had discovered that he was one-eighth Jewish, actually because he was too willing a Nazi stooge to suit the independent Magyars. Last week his successor, Count Paul Teleki, erstwhile Boy Scout leader, made more confusing news. Having announced that he would support the brutal anti-Semitic laws planned by Dr. Imrédy and that he was in agreement with the "peaceful aims of the Rome-Berlin axis," the Teleki Government promptly ordered police to round...
...Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody, 81, founder and rector of Groton, snootiest preparatory school in the U. S., can nick many a big name (Roosevelt, Morgan, Whitney) with a headmaster's holy right. A notoriously hardy perennial, as he left 70 further behind "Peabo" was fond of saying that his successor had not yet been weaned. But last week, his health robust as ever, he announced his inevitable retirement-in June...