Word: successor
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...territory, De Beers through its affiliates now accounts for about 95% of the world's uncut diamonds. Not all these diamonds come from its own mines. Indeed, the great African "pipe" mines were closed down tight throughout most of Depression.* But De Beers controls Diamond Corp.. haughty successor to the old monopolistic Diamond Syndicate, marketing agency for the Belgian Congo and other alluvial producers. Except for an unimportant dribble from miscellaneous fields, all the world's diamonds pass through No. 8 Charterhouse Street, London, headquarters of Diamond Corp. In bad times Diamond Corp. buys more than...
Elected Tew's successor at Goodrich's annual meeting in Manhattan last week was Samuel Brown Robertson, 59, who went to Goodrich in 1919 after 20 years as a supervising engineer for Pennsylvania Railroad. As director of engineering for the rubber company, big, husky Sam Robertson built the $4,000,000 Goodrich plant at Los Angeles, which is considered a model in the industry...
...University has chosen a successor to the Faculty chair which Copey left to become emeritus nine years...
Most popular mourner naturally was Governor Gordon Browning, who will appoint Senator Bachman's successor. Governor Browning, elected last autumn with the support of Boss Edward Hull Crump of Memphis (TIME, Aug. 17), had had his own eye on Senator Bachman's seat, which was occupied by Cordell Hull until he moved into the Cabinet. Gordon Browning, in fact, lost the seat to Nathan Bachman in the primaries of 1934. Knowing that the public does not like a Governor who resigns in order to be appointed to the Senate, he firmly announced last week that he would...
Looking toward the future, he said that the type of successor selected by Roosevelt will determine whether or not the CIO turns into a political party. "If a reactionary heads the Democratic ticket it would seem certain that a labor party would be launched...