Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than he were among the seven U. S. Presidents whom Elihu Root has counseled. In 1908 his own qualifications for the Presidency were unequalled. Teddy said he would crawl on hands & knees from the White House to the Capitol to make Root President. Then he chose Taft as his successor. He knew, as Republican managers did again in 1916, that Statesman Root was simply not "available." He was too brilliant. Politicians had long since learned that the U. S. electorate distrusts high intellect and imperturbable calm...
Young, wiry Mr. Grubb, who is the nephew of Yachtsman Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, is being boomed for president of the New York Stock Exchange. At a big testimonial banquet for the most popular Curb president in years, Richard Whitney, noting such reports about his possible successor, generously declared: "I sincerely hope that is right and E. Burd Grubb will be a president of the New York Stock Exchange-and soon...
...years passed and Franklin Roosevelt might never again have thought of asking the Admiral-Squire-Doctor-Socialite to take another job, but last week he had to pick a successor to the late John Barton Payne as head of the American Red Cross. Again the name of Admiral Grayson occurred to him. The President signed. The Admiral exclaimed: "It is a great honor. ... I want to serve humanity. . . ." And Franklin Roosevelt was pleased because he occasionally enjoys bestowing an accolade on the old Wilsonians of whom he once...
Goaltenders are always interesting parts of a hockey team but this year the League does not have as good a display as last season. Harvard is in the process of developing Ash Emerson as a successor to Paul DeGive but he will never have the same brilliancy although he is doing a good job in the nets. Yale has its captain, John Snyder, guarding its portals and to his fine work in the McGill game is attributed the greater part of the Bulldog success. Princeton tries Stew Gregory as equal to Snyder but his performances so far this season seem...
...next six weeks before the curtain rises on a finished production will be taken up with whipping the show into shape and drilling the cast and chorus in their roles. So far no name has been chosen for the successor of "Hades! The Ladies!" But Theodore Viehman of Pittsburgh has been put in charge of the rehearsals and William Holbrook of New York will coach the chorus, which turns out a week from today for its first practice in intricate dance steps and formations...