Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Secretary Morgenthau: "He differed with a policy I was trying to carry out." Four days later Secretary Morgenthau announced Lawyer Shafroth's successor: John P. Wenchell, heretofore an assistant Treasury general counsel...
...Landis' successor, Washington betting favors Commissioner William Orville ("Bill") Douglas...
...months ago Gustave Sap rose in Belgium's Parliament and pointed out that though Premier van Zeeland had tendered his resignation from the directorate of the National Bank of Belgium, the Bank still listed him as a vice governor, had not chosen a successor. Broadly he hinted that Paul van Zeeland was still accepting his $20,400 salary as a bank official, in addition to his much smaller salary as Premier of Belgium.* Furious, Premier van Zeeland swore that this was a lie, offered to open all his private accounts. Parliament believed him. Gustave Sap's own Catholic...
Since 1926 the iron fist of Pilsudskrs regime has pressed heavily on Poland. With his last breath the blustering old Dictator two years ago placed his benediction on bush-browed Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Army, gave him to the nation as his successor. Lacking the personal magnetism of the Old Marshal, the landscape-painting Marshal makes a poor Dictator. Using Pilsudski's coffin as his chief stock-in-trade, soft-spoken Smigly-Rydz has appealed in vain for all factions to heed the Old Marshal's wish for a unified Poland...
...Toledo. He bit a post-office clerk, and on June 12, 1897, he was shot. But such was Owney's fame that he was stuffed and placed in a glass case in the Smithsonian Institution. For 40 years Owney sat in his niche in the Smithsonian, awaiting a successor. It is now fairly certain there will never be another quite like him. Owney is a Post Office tradition...