Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First sign of Juilliard influence was the appointment of Herbert Witherspoon, old-time Metropolitan basso and later a member of the Juilliard teaching staff, as Gatti's successor. General Manager Witherspoon had worn his title for two weeks when he dropped dead of coronary thrombosis. Tenor Edward Johnson, long a popular favorite, stepped immediately into the post. Confronting him were union difficulties, many an important contract, many that had not been signed...
...Leon Fraser's Dutch successor as president of the Bank for International Settlements, Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, 60, last week informed the World Bank's directors he would resign at the end of the fiscal year. Nominated for his job was another Dutchman, J. W. A. Beyen, vice president...
...arrangement with their backers, however, they could not bequeath this potentiality in their last will & testament. Control of Midamerica reverted to Messrs. Ball & Tomlinson-principally Mr. Ball. Since neither of these gentlemen cared to cope with the discouragingly complex Van Sweringen corporate setup, they had to find a successor to Brother Oris Paxton...
...nearly four years they, and whoever else has happened to be with Mr. Roosevelt, have listened to sermons by Rev. Dr. Charles Ernest Smith who has been at St. Thomas' since 1902. This British-born rector, now in his 70's, has retired. Last week his successor was announced: Rev. Dr. Howard Sargent Wilkinson of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, Long Island...
...between Chicago's famed Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg and Methodist Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf. Bishop Waldorf, who played baseball at Syracuse University, amiably made conversation by saying that his son was a football coach in Oklahoma. Back in his office, Director Wilson, who was looking for a successor to Northwestern's Coach Dick Hanley, looked up the record of the bishop's son at Oklahoma City University and Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College. He discovered that in four years Coach Waldorf had transformed an Oklahoma A. & M. team that had just lost seven games in a row into...