Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This meeting marks the debut of the Harvard Student Union as an active organization and is expected to prepare the way for the peace strike to be held April 22. Arrangements for the meeting tomorrow were made by the Peace Council of the Union, successor in spirit to the Peace Society...
...situation was by seasoned Vladimir Poliakoff, the "Augur"' of the New York Times, who wrote: "Behind the smoke screen of the Franco-German tussle over the Rhineland... an internal political crisis is slowly maturing in London. No less is in the balance than the choice of a successor to Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservative Party and as Prime Minister...
Last month New York State Insurance Superintendent Louis Pink was offered $10,031,000 for National Surety Corp., successor to the big Manhattan Fidelity-Surety Company which slipped into the hands of Mr. Pink's department (TIME, March 23). This high bid for all of National's 100,000 shares of stock, was made by Commercial Investment Trust, cash-heavy installment financier. Last week, however, the courts ordered Mr. Pink to reject C. I. T.'s bid, accept one from Banc-america-Blair Corp. for 70,000 shares at a slightly higher per-share price...
Baba. In Tokyo the new Finance Minister, successor to assassinated Greatest-Japanese-Finance-Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, is that departed statesman's wily stooge, Mr. Eiichi Baba. As governor of the Government-controlled agricultural bankers' bank the Nippon Kwangyo Ginko since 1927, ingratiating Eiichi Baba has made the most of opportunities to become friends with the Radical-Militarists. The Army is almost entirely of peasant stock and absolutely resolved that exploited and oppressed Japanese rustics shall now get their innings. In Tokyo last week it was considered more than likely that wily Stooge Baba had sold the Army some...
...important; and also by virtue of the close coordination of the first three movements leading to a climax in the finale. Especially notable is the beautiful adagio which gives full expression to the emotional fervour surrounding the composer's deep love for the Catholic Church. The logical successor of Beethoven from the point of view of symphonic development, he died a comparatively humble but nevertheless significant figure in the musical world...