Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Storm Troops. Their power waned greatly after the "Blood Purge" (TIME, July 9, 1934), but in 1935 strongly waxed again. Somewhat of an enigma, Adolf Hitler keeps Germans guessing at many things. For example, the law concentrating all power in the Realmleader authorizes him to indicate how his successor is to be chosen and implies that he must do so. Yet he continues to delay. Nowadays he even delights in oratorical passages implying with throbbing pathos that...
...Fighting Bob'') Shuler, Prohibition candidate whom the Record had long flayed as a '"snooper" and "meddler." Readers who thought the editor had lost his mind dis covered that instead he had lost his job be tween editions, been replaced by order of James's son & successor. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 23. Year later the Record changed hands, dropped into stodgy conservatism, lost circulation and advertising. In January 1935 it was bought by E. Manchester Boddy (pronounced Boady). Twelve years ago slight, dapper, pencil-mustached. Manchester Boddy, a gassed and wounded A. E. F. lieutenant, was organizing...
Prominently mentioned as Dean Pound's successor are Charles E. Hughes, Jr., Judge Robert P. Patterson of New York, and Austin W. Scott of the Law School faculty...
...Successor to the "Children of Depression" exhibit of a few years ago, this display consists of chemical products invented within the last two years. Weather-proof paints, dyes, high-powered explosives and a recently discovered method of isolating the elusive vitamin "D" are on view. As a proof that our contemporary chemists have not entirely neglected the lighter side of life, the latest method for aging green whisky takes a well-earned position among its more sedate brethren of "recovery...
...Congregation of Rites vigilantly investigates all aspects of the candidate's life. In the case of Father Damien, the Congregation has doubtless already been obliged to consider old stories which gained fresh currency upon the death nearly five years ago of Father Damien's zealous, self-sacrificing successor, Brother Joseph Dutton (TIME, April 6, 1931). Brother Joseph died at 87, untouched by leprosy. Why, some wondered, did Father Damien contract it? Was he unclean? Soon after Father Damien died a Honolulu Presbyterian missionary named C. M. Hyde wrote a colleague that, among other things, the leper priest...