Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would retire from public office. This week Lord Hailsham was succeeded as Lord President of the Council by Viscount Runciman as a "reward" for the Mediator's unsuccessful labors in Czechoslovakia. It was typical of ponderous British politics that not until last week did Neville Chamberlain name a successor to First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper, who resigned just after Munich because he could not swallow it. High-spirited young Duff Cooper was succeeded by the completely unexciting Earl Stanhope, who had been droning along as president of the Board of Education...
Chileans who fail to vote are black-listed as civic-duty dodgers and have to pay a 100-peso ($5) fine. Consequently, last week most of them turned out to vote in a typical South American election which picked a successor to stern, small-eyed President Arturo Alessandri Rodriguez, forbidden by law to succeed himself...
...years ago the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's board of directors were casting about for a successor to Maestro Arturo Toscanini, just retired. Shortly after they signed up Germany's famed Wilhelm Furtwangler it was announced from Berlin that Conductor Furtwangler had accepted the high, Nazi-dominated post of Generalmusikdirektor at the Berlin State Opera. Thereupon irate Philharmonic-Symphony subscribers demanded, and got, Conductor Furtwangler's immediate resignation from the Philharmonic-Symphony post (TIME, March...
Father Simon's successor, Father Erasmus Dooley, entered the church. He left it carrying, in a pyx, the Blessed Sacrament. Ten of the "liberators," Catholics who averred that they wished simply to give Father Simon his freedom and permit services to be resumed in the church, took possession of the rectory. But not for long. The pickets reorganized, mobilized their reserves, stormed the rectory with 100 men, beat up the "liberators," with bloody emphasis on one of them, a trustee of the church named Florian Vecellia, who took his bruises home to bed. Pickets bundled their not-unwilling Father...
Before the Dictator somewhat clarified his attitude at Trieste last week, Jewish President Arnaldo Frigessi Di Ratalma "voluntarily resigned" as head of this great port's biggest insurance firm Riunione Adriatica, which elected as his successor non-Jewish Fulvio Suvich, Italian Ambassador to the U. S. who is now in Italy. Jewish President Edgardo Morpurgo of Assicurazioni Generali, the great Venetian insurance firm, likewise resigned last week and was replaced by famed Count Volpi, who in 1925 as Finance Minister negotiated the Italo-U. S. debt accord. Swank Countess Volpi is a Jewess and so is the old mother...