Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt never said just when he would appoint a successor to Justice Willis Van Devanter who retired two months ago. Nonetheless it had been largely taken for granted that he would do so before Congress adjourned. Last week with that adjournment becoming imminent, what had been taken for granted became a matter of speculation. For the President announced he had asked Attorney General Cummings for an opinion on his power to appoint a Justice when Congress was not in session...
They had buried Joe Robinson down in Arkansas just three days before the Democrats of the U. S. Senate met to pick his successor as their leader-highest gift in their power. It was the first time Democrats had gathered for such a purpose since Dec. 4, 1923, when the late great Oscar Wilder Underwood's resignation took effect. Joe Robinson had then been chosen unanimously...
Scrupulously Mr. Clark pointed out that his "visitors" would not constitute a link with the Federal Government. Having served the State Department for eleven years as solicitor, legal representative, Under Secretary (under Herbert Hoover) and finally as the late Dwight Morrow's successor as Ambassador to Mexico, Mr. Clark well knows that any hint that his dunning agency was an arm of the U. S. Government would play ned with the New Deal's good neighbor foreign policy. Chief job of Mr. Clark's visitors will be to assure the public that the Council is not linked...
...favored what might be called the Weights & Measures Theory. This week Publisher Macmillan again subscribed to this theory with the announcement that And So-Vic-toria weighed 7! Ib. in typescript, ran to over 1,600 pages in manuscript, 618 pages in print, and was going to be a successor to Gone With The Wind. Critics were not so optimistic. Some believed that the newcomer's size might be due to glandular trouble. Others thought it might choke to death on its title...
...post as Historical Adviser to the State Department in 1931 thoroughly impatient with "bureaucracy." But no one thought that Tyler Dennett, an able, searching scholar whose John Hay biography won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize, would find it hard to get another job. This week the trustees elected as his successor one of their own number, Alumnus James Phinney Baxter III ('14). A great friend "of Tyler Dennett, who he recommended to Williams' trustees three years ago as earnestly as Tyler Dennett was recommending him. Trustee Baxter was salmon-fishing in his native Maine during the entire fuss. Plainspoken...