Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garrett an associate judge of the U. S. court of customs and patent appeals (salary: $12,500). Three weeks ago, the court's Presiding Judge William J. Graham died. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee was considering the man Franklin Roosevelt had nominated as Judge Graham's successor: 62-year-old Finis James Garrett...
...tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, the Sacred College of Cardinals may number 70 prelates. But until two years ago it was always short of this plenum by at least three or four members. Reason was that, should a Pope die suddenly, his successor might wish immediately to make cardinals of his best friends and working associates. Impatient of tradition, Pope Pius XI brought the Sacred College up to 69 two years ago. Continuing a policy of creating cardinals as deaths occurred in the College, the Holy Father last week let it be announced that he would award five...
...Swarthmore's campus last week sprang up a successor to the Veterans of Future Wars. Undergraduates formed the United Scions of the Aristocracy, claiming 215 members, drafted a program for "uniting the scattered crumbs of the upper crust," planned to agitate for free caviar and champagne for 'Impecunious aristo-crats." First to receive their attention will be the "underfêted and undersoused one-thirtieth of the nation's population." Their legislative aims include pensions for indigent debutantes and for "well-bred worthies who can prove they have never soiled their hands with labor." Cried an aristocracy...
Slated as Gray's successor at center, John Herrick, who is six feet, six inches tall, has improved considerably from last year in handling the ball. If Herrick is unable to play full-time in every game, Red Lowman may possibly be moved over from forward when substitution is necessary...
...Baseball Facts. He played his last football game (nine minutes for charity) five weeks before his 66th birthday. Last week in Manhattan, at a luncheon of the Touchdown Club, Footballer Heffelfinger's embattled head was crowned with a final wreath. Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Walter Camp's successor as All-America picker, called him "the greatest football player that ever lived." Last week many a band of potential football heroes clashed on U. S. gridirons...