Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was danger of an explosion unless they raised a substantial amount to rescue Sweitzer." Forty thousand dollars was actually subscribed to bring the county's daily cash drawer up to par just before Clerk Sweitzer left office. But a real explosion took place when Sweitzer's successor asked for an audit of county funds. Biggest and most immediate deficiency was found in the fund into which delinquent taxes are paid. In the 24 years which Bob Sweitzer had been custodian of the fund, the audit showed at least $350,000 had vanished. Also raised when the County...
...will emerge from Britain's next general election, expected this year, was what worried the King's subjects last week. In nationwide municipal elections there has been a landslide to Labor, and since the old guard leaders of the Labor Party are now mostly venerable deadwood, their successor looms in pugnacious, able and popular Herbert Morrison, sometimes called "Prime Minister of London" since he and his Labor cohorts captured the London County Council (TIME, March...
Harper Woodward '31, Secretary to President Conant, has resigned his position effective September 1, to practice law in New York City. Woodward, who succeeded Vernon Munroe, Jr., a year ago, will join the firm of Barry, Wainwright, Thacher, and Symmers. The appointment of his successor will be announced next week after the meeting of the Corporation...
Those are the Osler Oration and the Frank Billings Lecture. Older of the two is the Osler Oration, named after the late Sir William Osler (1849-1919), great practitioner and teacher of medicine. Osler Orator this year is Dr. Lewellys Franklin Barker, 67, Canadian-born successor to Osler as physician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital...
...packed extra power behind its punches by blacklisting unrepentant offenders. First to go on the list were four of Mississippi's institutions of higher learning, after Governor Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo's spectacular purge of 179 presidents, deans, professors. When Bilbo's successor reinstated the purged pedagogs, Mississippi was returned to favor. Currently in academic Coventry are Harris Teachers College (St. Louis). Rollins College, Brenau College (Gainesville, Ga.), De Pauw University and the U. S. Naval Academy. No loyal Association member will take a job at any of these institutions...