Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After months of sober head-scratching, the directors of Paramount Pictures last week decided on a successor to President John Otterson, who got his walking papers at the last stockholders meeting (TIME, June 29). Their choice was Barney Bala ban, one of the new directors elected last month and co-founder of Chicago's chain of Balaban & Katz theatres...
...Great Britain, the Clergy, university officials etc. April 9 revived the disused custom of personally distributing "Maundy Money" to the poor in Westminster Abbey. April 20 cabled congratulations to Adolf Hitler on the Realmleader's birthday. April jo on the death of King Fuad of Egypt received his successor King Farouk, a youth in school in England, prior to the new King's departure for Cairo. May g encouraged the Covent Garden Opera season by leasing a box, though he attended no operas up to last week. May 16 saw privately his first stage performance since he came...
...another Scotsman, Chairman James McKinsey. To President McKinlay, who rose from a cashboy, Marshall Field was an Institution. To Chairman McKinsey, who entered from the top as a professional management counsel, Marshall Field was a corporation with a problem. The two viewpoints were incompatible. As Mr. McKinlay's successor, Mr. McKinsey suggested Vice President Frederick Dexter Corley, a tall, blue-eyed, dark-haired merchant of 53 who got his start in the millinery department at 18. The suggestion was accepted by the Marshall Field directorate within five minutes...
...prompt with a letter of personal sympathy posted to No. 18 Cadogan Gardens. Sir Samuel's prompt decision to resign then was, last week in British eyes, a symbol of the qualities of firmness which should make him a great First Lord. In contrast to this, his successor as Foreign Secretary, young Anthony Eden, cut a sorry figure in the House of Commons as his Sanctionist policy crashed and he did not resign. Nowadays there is an almost frightened apology in young "Tony" Eden's eyes as he goes about with the Foreign Office's astute Permanent...
CHOOSE A BRIGHT MORNING-Hillel Bernstein-Stokes ($2). In a worthy successor to L'Affaire Jones, Satirist Bernstein flits gracefully from light comedy to stinging irony, never wavering from his determination to ridicule dictators in general, Realmleader Hitler in particular...