Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electing four members to vacancies on the omnipotent Ways & Means Committee, the Democratic House Caucus voted most heavily for Representative Milton West of Texas, non-New Dealer, good friend of Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner and successor to his House seat. The other three fillers-in elected were New Dealers: Louisiana's Maloney, Pennsylvania's Boland, Illinois' McKeough. Conspicuously not elected to the Committee was a self-proclaimed candidate. Wright Patman of Texas, author of Bill No. 1 on the House calendar, to tax chain stores out of existence...
...book had been dedicated in these words. "To Mr. Justice Cardoza, rightful successor of Mr. Justice Holmes." Professor Frankfurter sent a specially stricken copy of this dedication to the death bed of the man whom he was named to succeed yesterday...
Frank Murphy said that Frankfurter "is the natural successor of Holmes and Cardozo . . . one of the most distinguished legal scholars of our time...
Fiscal 1940 will not have been swaddled in Franklin Roosevelt's budget message until this week, but its pre-natal cries promised a worthy successor to fiscal 1939. the bouncingest budget ($8,985,000,000) of all. They brought worrying to the bedside such influential Democratic physicians as John Nance Garner, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd. In Boston last month Senator Byrd expounded his worries about spending which he blamed on the "crackpot" .theories of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This week Chairman Eccles, a banker who favors...
...education. He taught for a year, then became assistant to Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, the astronomer who discovered helium in the sun. In 1893 he joined Sir Norman on the staff of Nature, succeeded eventually to the editorial chair. As a final distinction, Sir Richard Gregory will have no successor. Henceforth the editorial affairs of Nature will be managed by a board...