Word: successor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...School had its own private fight. The school committee wanted to give it a broad, up-to-date program of studies. When the headmaster stood pat, the committee revenged itself by making fantastic changes in the curriculum, and the school went into a slump. After the headmaster died, his successor appeased the committee by adding new courses but left the classics in the saddle...
...turn could not allow even the death of his brother (see p. 32) to delay his going. Observers found notable the letter with which Pius XI commissioned Cardinal Pacelli as his legate to Lourdes. Almost warm enough to constitute an endorsement of his Secretary of State as his successor were the Pope's words...
...Atterbury's convalescence dragged on, complicated by severe neuritis. He even missed Pennsylvania's annual meeting last month. Last week he attended his first directors' meeting in a nine-month, and then only to nominate his successor. Bowing to Mr. Atterbury's desire to retire, the directors elected, as Pennsylvania's tenth ruler, Martin Withington Clement, vice president and active head of the $2,000,000,000 system during Mr. Atterbury's long absence...
...President, tanned a deep brown from his outing, had an opinion about the House's activities. The Senate always dawdles, but the House, under the rule of strong Speakers, has a tradition of dispatch. As the tanned man looked up into the rough-hewn face of the successor of Henry Clay of Kentucky, James K. Polk of Tennessee, Howell Cobb of Georgia, Schuyler Colfax of Indiana, James G. Elaine of Maine, Thomas B. Reed of Maine, Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, Champ Clark of Missouri and Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, he must have been tempted to point out that...
Meanwhile in St. Louis last week, 32 boxers scuffled, danced, staggered through the last night of another A. A. U. tournament. Another Louis, Louis Nova of San Francisco, won the amateur heavyweight championship for 1935 by thrashing Joe Malinsky of Cleveland. Successor to Joe Louis, as light-heavyweight champion, was a Cleveland welder named Joe Bauer. Of the eight title-winners, four-Dave Clark (160 lb.), Al Netlow (126 lb.), Troy Bellini (118 lb.) and Bauer-were members of Chicago's Golden Gloves team (TIME, April...