Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hemenway was seriously considered in December, 1934, together with Memorial Hall, as a successor to Phillips Brooks House as the Commuter Center...
...Louisville, Ky. last week, staff members of the Courier-Journal and Times heard news they had been anxiously awaiting. Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and owner of the two papers, had found and appointed a successor to onetime General Manager Emanuel Levi, who a month ago departed to take charge of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (TIME, March 9). New Courier-Journal and Times boss was Mark Foster Ethridge, famed Southern newspaperman. In Richmond, Va., where he had just resigned as publisher of the Times-Dispatch, Mark Ethridge...
When Arturo Toscanini announced that this season would be his last with the Philharmonic-Symphony, every music-loving New Yorker realized that the proud Manhattan orchestra was face-to-face with a perilous crisis. Toscanini was regarded as a musical god, incomparable and unapproachable. No ordinary successor could begin to fill his boots. The Philharmonic directors sat through many a worried session, finally offered the post to Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler who relinquished it when he heard of the stormy protests against his Nazi connections. The hunt went on until last week when five conductors were announced...
...brilliant law students ever graduated from the Law School received his degree in 1924, and was immediately taken to Washington as secretary to Justice Brandeis. Both Landis and Goodrich are registered as members of the Democratic party. It is thought extremely likely that President Conant will announce Pound's successor before the college year closes...
This year Girard's able President Herrick reaches 70. Last week Girard named as his successor Dr. Merle Middleton Odgers, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's College of Liberal Arts for Women. Lank, sharp-faced, 35, Merle Odgers is married, lives with his wife and daughter in suburban Upper Darby. An ardent classicist, he may circumvent one of the last of Founder Girard's barriers: "I do not forbid, but I do not recommend the Greek and Latin languages...