Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Touchy subordinates eventually got Dr. Gregory ousted from his job. Ever since, New York City has sought a successor who fulfilled these requirements: "A man of proved professional, scientific and administrative ability, together with cultural qualifications and personal characteristics which would enable him to represent Bellevue and Kings County Hospital with the dignity which their importance demands, and could command such respect from the community as would make it possible for him to mobilize the force necessary to carry on a progressive and constructive program...
...quite a sensation with its robust and not too polite humor was followed by a series of inferior imitations. The same publishers have brought out a new volume this season entitled "The Bedroom Companion or A Cold Nights Entertainment," which should prove in its own way a very popular successor. Written nominally for male consumption, one may easily predict that it will have universal feminine appeal, or at least more than it should...
...mention of Clark's successor was made at the dinner. Francis J. Ryan '23, director of publicity, and Richard C. Harlow, Varsity football coach, have been cited as possible candidates for the position...
...Billy Phillips' career matched his endowments. After college a classmate and a fellow Porcellian, Bayard Cutting, elder brother of the late Senator from New Mexico, went to London as private secretary to U. S. Ambassador Joseph H. Choate. Tiring of diplomacy, Cutting in 1903 suggested Phillips as his successor. Two years later William Woodville Rockhill, U. S. Minister to China, met the suave and elegant young Phillips in London, took him to Peking as second secretary at the U. S. legation. Because China was so far away, Billy Phillips resigned that job, gave up his seniority, returned to Washington...
...successor of Dean Edgell, former head of the School, was appointed last June. The changes which he is initiating are still in a state of flux, but he revealed their general objective...