Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada its first commoner for Governor-General. Canadians have grown heartily weary of the King.'s man they have now, dull, finical Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough. Last week Governor-General Bessborough, wife & daughter were in western Canada on a "farewell tour." By all etiquet, his successor should not have been named until after Bessborough finishes presiding at the King's Silver Jubilee ceremonies in Canada. But George V's popularity in his dominions is more important to the Government than Bessborough's personal feelings. Therefore, last week plain John Buchan was named Governor...
...Since turning professional, Heavyweight Louis has had 17 fights, won 13 by knockouts, four by decision without losing a round. Last week, when he thrashed Heavyweight Natie Brown in Detroit, the U. S. Press, always eager to ballyhoo a "black menace" to the heavyweight championship, selected Joe Louis as successor to Jack Johnson, Harry Wills, Sam Langford. Twenty years old, equipped with a formidable right hand, polite, a flashy dresser, so religious he sometimes reads his Bible between rounds, Fisticuffer Louis is matched to fight one- time Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera next June...
...pounding loudly for a little while on the beach of public attention and then receding to the silent depths of history. The Utopian movement, whipped up into big breakers by the 1934 campaign, spent itself in the defeat of California's Upton Sinclair and his EPIC. Its successor, the Townsend Plan, touched its high watermark just before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey out of him (TIME, Feb. 18). As of All Fools Day, 1935, the largest political splash was being made by Huey...
...throne, was apparently content to sit back and let the downward rush of history take its course. But there was method in his cynicism. Hoping that Rome would eventually tire of tyranny if it became too outrageous, he played King Log to the Roman frog-pond. He knew his successor Nero would be a terror, trusted that the people would rise against him and restore the Republic. His part played, when he knew that his wife was planning to have him killed it was hardly a surprise, almost a relief...
Last year he was struck with dismay when his successor, Premier Tsaldaris, concluded the Balkan Pact with Yugoslavia, Rumania and Turkey. Venizelos saw that Yugoslavia was bound to get into trouble with Italy and Albania, that Greece might have to fight to pull Yugoslavia's chestnuts out of the fire. He objected also to the fact that Italy had not been consulted. Himself nobody's cat's-paw, he could not help feeling that no Greek but himself could ever do anything right...