Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about as much money getting elected as he will be paid for serving ($1,511.12, plus $1,818 for five clerks' salaries and $18.75 for stationery). A Portland lawyer and one-time State Liquor Commissioner, Senator Barry worries more about his girth than a Senator ought to. His successor, full-time Senator Rufus C. Holman, will be the fourth Senator in the seat within eleven months...
...Nikolai Yezhov's drastic thinning of the top-rank Soviet administrators, generals and diplomats was itself a peculiarly subtle kind of sabotage. then Comrade Yezhov's removal last week was the beginning of his end. Every previous Commissar of Internal Affairs has eventually fallen victim to his successor...
Stillman's successor should be built in a place as close to the Hygiene Building as possible. There are three prominent possibilities. The first is the territory from the Hasty Pudding Club to the corner, across the street from the Hygiene Building. Another spot would be on Holyoke Place in front of Lowell House, The third and most likely possibility would be the University parking-lot on Mount Auburn Street. While the first would occasion the demolition of buildings and the second the defacement of the Lowell House entrance, the third would only require the utilization of a convenient outdoor...
...with most plans of this type there are no funds available for enactment. Perhaps some intelligent alumnus, seeing the dire need for a new infirmary, will donate a successor to Stillman. Otherwise Dr. Bock together with the officers of the University will have to devise some plan for canvassing the alumni and friends of the University. Harvard needs a new, bigger, and more complete infirmary, and she needs...
Keeping watch on bank accounting is the specific job of the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency. Until recently, comptroller was bubbling J. F. T. O'Connor, who resigned to run for Governor of California. Mr. O'Connor's successor is Preston Delano, and banking gossip for several weeks has held that there would soon be a tightening of Federal supervision over Banker Giannini's finances. That A. P. himself smelled a mouse became clear last month when he startled the American Bankers Association convention by announcing that he was "fed up with some...