Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Samuel Gompers was laid in his grave in Tarrytown, N. Y. in 1924, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor announced his successor as chief of U. S. Labor: William Green. No one was more surprised than inconspicuous Mr. Green. Old Cigarmaker Gompers, who regarded the A. F. of L. as his own personal property, had willed the job to Matthew Woll, head of the little Photo Engravers Union. But having grown restive under long Gompers rule, the individualistic members of the A. F. of L. high command were in no mood to honor the cigarmaker...
...motor truck division is doing pretty well, producing 205 heavy-duty trucks per day (the plan calls for 225), but doughty Old Bolshevik Dybets has been unable to fill the bigshots' demands for Soviet luxury cars and last week he was fired with such abruptness that no successor was announced, and the All-Union Motor Car and Tractor Administration was at latest reports without a head...
Sweden is known to contemporary artists principally for its sculpture, which Carl Milles has made world-famed, and for the beautiful work in glass, silver and furniture fostered by the Swedish Association of Arts & Crafts under renowned Dr. Gregor Paulsson and his successor, Dr. Ake Stavenow. Last spring a committee, including the Worcester Museum's rotund Director Francis Henry Taylor and Russell A. Plimpton, director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, decided to pass up sculpture, try to assemble for U. S. showings a selection of old, not new, Swedish handicrafts. Bright, tactful Mr. Plimpton spent the summer...
Married. Thomas Joseph Qualters, 33, onetime Notre Dame football player, onetime Massachusetts State policeman, successor since last December to the late Gus Gennerich as bodyguard to President Roosevelt; to Arlene Eade, of Lynn, Mass.; in Lynn. Two days after the ceremony, they were separated, Mrs. Qualters settling down to furnish an apartment in Washington while Bodyguard Qualters went west with the President...
...their security program, Mormons were at the same time asked to pray and work. Pithy, ominous Mormon advice went out to all Church members from the First Counselor in the potent, three-man First Presidency-plump J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., able lawyer, able onetime colleague and successor of Dwight Whitney Morrow as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Counselor Clark warned Mormons of the next depression, "more serious, affecting intimately far greater numbers of people than the one we are now finishing. To prepare for this coming disaster we must avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...