Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice Presidents˜Miner Philip Murray, whose stature as No. 2 man in C.I.O. and probable successor to John Lewis has steadily increased; wise, adroit Sidney Hillman, to whom Mr. Murray absentmindedly referred as "second vice president." (The two are supposedly equal.) Secretary˜Shy, brilliant James Barren Carey, 27, whose United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers have one of the most vigorous and biggest of the younger C.I.O. unions. Mr. Lewis, who considers little Mr. Carey the best of C.I.O.'s youngsters, maneuvered his election as a salute to them. Mr. Carey thereupon dashed home to Manhattan, where...
...Chernov, the People's Commissar for Agriculture, was dismissed, eventually shot as a "traitor." He was replaced by Robert In-drikovich Eikhe, who was hailed with press panegyrics as the right man for the right job. Commissar Eikhe was soon after heckled as a "harmer," later "disappeared." His successor in a few months' time was Commissar Volkov, but he too soon lost his job. After that the office went begging for occupants...
...page indictment of the New York Times for the biased way they thought it handled the Russian revolution. Time brings all things. Mr. Lippmann is now an editorial keystone on the conservative New York Herald Tribune. Last week Charles Merz was made successor to 75-year-old Dr. John Huston Finley as editor of the conservative New York Times, in charge of the editorial page...
...building be named for him. Said he: "After all, since I wrote and sold my books partly because of my capacity as professor here, we feel the University is entitled to the profits." Taking charge of the new building is Dr. Cubberley's own choice as his successor, 38-year-old Dean Grayson Neikirk Kefauver, who has already made Stanford's School of Education a famed centre of progressive education...
...legislation on his agenda--broad extension of old-age security--while at the same time consolidating his constructive measures of the past. And, by veering more toward the middle-of-the-road policies decreed by the electorate, he would mend his fences for 1940, enabling himself to name his successor or to run for the third term if a suitable personality does not emerge. The future of the New Deal lies with its leader, the President...