Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Florida Democrats held a special primary to pick a successor to its other lately deceased Senator, Park Trammell. The choice was between onetime Governor Doyle Elam Carlton of Tampa, claiming the support of Florida's labor vote, and Charles Oscar Andrews, a onetime circuit judge, who had never made a State-wide campaign before and whose chances of victory were ridiculed by the Press. But Democrat Andrews not only had the endorsement of Florida's Convention of Townsend Clubs, but led all other candidates in his devotion to Townsendism. When the votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews...
When Methodism's Senior Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, himself a Deauw deserter: Publisher Kenneth DePauw Craven ("Casey") Hogate of the Wall Street Journal and onetime (1928-29) Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West met early this month in Manhattan to name Dr. Oxnam's successor, many a DePauw alumnus hoped they would see fit to break precedent, choose a layman. Instead they retired in silence. Last week the committee reassembled in Indianapolis, announced the selection of another Methodist minister. He was Dr. Clyde Everett Wildman, Professor of Old Testament history and religion at Boston University...
...Manhattan bankers at a stiff price. By the time Giannini somewhat recovered, reappeared in Manhattan, he was obliged to put a bold face on his troubles by announcing that he had picked Elisha Walker, head of the old, eminent and sage private banking house of Blair & Co. as his successor. Year later Giannini retired, making Mr. Walker chairman of Transamerica and Mr. Walker predicted a great future for branch banking, In 1931 Mr. Walker ruthlessly swept the remaining Gianninis from Transamerica's board of directors, proposed to sell the whole Giannini chain of banks because "there is no apparent...
...with tradition she was selected as an Army woman to fill an Army post. She has done her work well and to the satisfaction of all those who had business with her. She has been the custodian of important, confidential papers. . . . The creature of a boss named -s her successor would have no understanding of Service affairs. We submit to the President that it is far better to disappoint a political henchman than to violate an honored tradition, and to cast odium upon a system which enables the ousting of a thoroughly competent official...
...Studd, who as a Cambridge student was converted by Evangelist Moody; Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who was inspired to work as a medical missionary in Labrador by the U. S. man of God; Dwight Moody's only surviving son, Paul Dwight, now 57, forceful president of Middlebury (Vt.) College, successor to his late brother, William Revell Moody, as director of the East Northfield conferences...