Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leader Robinson, help hold the Administration lines. With him went ex-Representative Charles F. West, now Presidential contact-man, and in the cloak rooms of the Senate they and Whip Harrison proceeded to buttonhole doubtful members. Only one clear victory did they gain: New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, successor to the late Bronson Cutting, whose vote bonuseers had counted on, listened obediently to Boss Farley's words...
...dazed. Few hours before in Detroit, Tenor Edward Johnson had been the dreamy hero of Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson. Then suddenly, on the baggage truck, he was supposed to tell reporters how it felt to be General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, the successor to Herbert Witherspoon who dropped dead two weeks after he had taken over the job from Giulio Gatti-Casazza (TIME...
...other words, are the Elite who are the old friends of the Cafe Europejska, the Colonels. The President in theory can dismiss them. The Colonels knew that never, never would President Moscicki dream of such a thing, and they alone have the power to force the election of his successor...
...hours after Herbert Witherspoon's burial, the Metropolitan directors voted to abide by the plans he had made, hoped to elect his successor this week. The most likely candidates appeared to be Edward Ziegler or Tenor Edward Johnson...
...Pennsy ever had. He started with the road as a rodman in 1901 after graduating from Trinity College, trod the traditional path of railroad promotion until 1926 when he was made vice president in charge of operations. At that time and for years afterwards Mr. Atterbury's logical successor appeared to be his famed Vice President Elisha Lee. But 3 year and a half ago Mr. Lee dropped dead in Manhattan and Mr. Clement became heir-apparent to the biggest railroad...