Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production again on the skids, this added up to a pressing need for cash. Three months ago U. S. Steel borrowed $50,000,000 from Pittsburgh, Chicago and Manhattan banks. Last week, to retire the loans and get the money for 1938's construction, Myron Taylor's successor, young Edward R. Stettinius Jr., announced his first big financial operation: flotation of $100,000,000 in ten-year debentures, to take place next month under the wing of Morgan Stanley...
...this Ambassador Suvich's haughty reply was, "I came here merely to participate in the dedication ceremonies . . . not to discuss politics," but as the successor to the closest thing to a dictator the U. S. has yet produced, Governor Leche felt called on to make apologies for Mr. Harrison. Said he: "There is an old saying that the pen is mightier than the sword. I think our friend resents any advantage on the part of the sword...
...action has been taken by the Committee regarding Stubbs successor, but it is understood that the Committee will consider the matter at their May meeting. Looming as possibilities are Clark Hodder '25, this year's assistant coach, John Garrison 31, former Harvard and Olympic star, and George Ford '37, last year's captain...
...visited his tiny nation for five years. He has run his Government by long-distance from Vienna and his Czechoslovakian estates. Last week the aged ruler suddenly abdicated at his hunting lodge near Semmering, Austria, named his 31-year-old third cousin, mustached, dapper Prince Franz Joseph, as his successor...
...more than average ability. Last week Metropolitan General Manager Edward Johnson, having listened with his fellow judges to 707 auditions, announced the winners for 1937-38. Presented with a contract, $1,000 and a silver plaque apiece were handsome, smooth-faced Brooklyn Tenor John Carter (Nelson Eddy's successor on the Chase & Sanborn Hour) and slick-haired, muscular Bronx Baritone Leonard Warren. Twenty-five-year-old Tenor Carter studied to be a civil engineer, gave up engineering to study voice. Baritone Warren was brought up in his Russian-born father's fur business, studied singing for five years...