Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pendergast family tree of politics included three brothers: 1) "Big Tom," 2) James, boss of the First Ward, who died in 1911, 3) Michael, boss of the Tenth Ward, who died in 1920. Nephew James is a son of the late Michael, was successor to his father as ward boss before succeeding his Uncle Tom as boss of the Works...
...reappointment of pinko Associate Professor Jerome Davis,* the members of the Corporation of Yale University one morning last week assembled in their quarters in old Woodbridge Hall. It was their regular February meeting, but all through New Haven had gone the whisper that at last Yale was choosing a successor to 67-year-old President James Rowland Angell who will retire in June. As the Corporation seated themselves, the University's Provost, handsome Charles Seymour, was absent. He rarely misses a Corporation meeting, but at that moment he was in his office in Berkeley College. The meeting was brief...
With the Board of Trustees of the University of Wisconsin on the look out for a successor of Glen Frank, ousted head of the state institution, Harvard's faculty seemed a natural place for them to turn...
Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor Igor Stravinsky too bloodless and ascetic (TIME, Jan. 25) last week found his successor, Georges Enesco, more to their taste. They clapped warmly when the burly, bigheaded Rumanian walked awkwardly onto the stage of Carnegie Hall to lead the Philharmonic for the first time in his life. Stoop-shouldered and serious, Georges Enesco showed in his conducting neither the agility of Barbirolli nor the machine regularity of Stravinsky. But nobody could doubt Enesco's knowledge of the orchestra, his anxious and humble devotion to the scores...
Died. Rev. Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour, 69, since 1929 president of Brown University; after long illness, fortnight before his retirement and the inauguration of Henry Merritt Wriston (TIME, Oct. 19) as his successor; in Providence...