Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corporation yesterday accepted the resignation of Dr. Alfred Worcester '78, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene. It will become effective on September 1, but as yet no successor has been appointed...
...Hans von Seeckt, he of the genial monocle and steel-trap brain, retired from China's service after putting Generalissimo Chiang's armies into the snappiest, most efficient shape ever attained by a Chinese force. Although von Seeckt leaves a junior German officer in China as his successor, Japan is strenuously pressing Premier Wang, who is also Foreign Minister, to clean out the Germans and appoint Japanese military advisers to China's Armies...
...easy to imagine the small erect figure of Otto Hermann Kahn, carnation in buttonhole, a quick shrewd word for everyone. No ghost was big Giulio Gatti-Casazza, for 27 years the Metropolitan's general manager. But Gatti's regime ends next month. Last week his successor was named and a momentous bargain sealed. In a desperate attempt to save its life, the Metropolitan sold its independence. Price: $150,000. The buyer was the Juilliard Musical Foundation, created by the late Augustus D. Juilliard, a native of Stark County, Ohio, who migrated to Manhattan and made a fortune...
Warner Brothers' musical extravaganza "Gold Diggers of 1935" featuring the infectious Dick Powell, and supported by a host of Hollywood's funniest comedians, is a worthy successor to the 1933 and 1934 hits of the same name. It is light, airy, and debonair. Judging from the response of the audience, the picture took...
...hereby renounce all the rights I had been asking, but reserve all the rights I formerly enjoyed before my accession to the throne. I have no wish to exercise my right under the Succession Act to nominate my successor. I have no wish that any one should create any disturbance in the country on my behalf; if any one should use my name in this connection it must be understood that it would be without my agreement, approval or support My deepest regret is that I no longer will be able to serve my people and my country...