Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis was ticklish work this week. Premier-Designate Chautemps, who had been Minister of State under Premier Blum, not only asked Deputy Blum to become Minister of State in his attempted Cabinet but observed to reporters: "I have just been talking to M. Blum, my predecessor and perhaps my successor!" Down but not out was Léon Blum, hailed this week by confident Jewish and Socialist friends as "the first Jew and the first Socialist to become Premier of France-but not the last...
...Chance" moved last year from his rambling house on the Vanderbilt campus to a new home in Nashville's grassy Belle Meade, where besides keeping a close eye on Successor Carmichael he can devote more time to raising his black irises, known by his name to most U. S. horticulturists. The "Chance" also likes fishing, shooting ducks at his camp in Magnetawan, Ont., discussing anything under the sun with his wife Mary, listening to prize fight broadcasts with his son-in-law, Professor Benjamin Meritt of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Kirkland crotchets include a dislike...
Russ Allen Gaffney's successor to captaincy of football team...
...Secretary of State (1925-1929), he fathered the anti-war pact which bore his name with that of France's late great Aristide Briand, and which was duly signed in Paris by 15 leading nations, including Japan, Italy and Germany. Ever since Mr. Kellogg's successor Henry Lewis Stimson made his abortive attempt to invoke the Pact against Japan in 1931, Mr. Kellogg's monument has seemed increasingly hollow. Last week, not as a Government official but as a trustee and benefactor of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., 80-year-old Frank Kellogg created one niche...
...wrote editorials and reviews for its Journal. For two years he was secretary to Senator Dixon of Rhode Island. For eleven more he was the New York Tribune's assistant music critic, working with Krehbiel. When Henderson left the Times in 1902 he proposed Aldrich as his successor. Until 1924, when failing health made Aldrich write more sparingly, his articles, as oracular as Henderson's, proved the wisdom of the choice...