Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months the trustees of the University of Rochester have been dangling a rich prize before the eyes of U. S. educators. In a search for a successor to President Rush Rhees they examined the qualifications of no less than 101 candidates. Last week they voted to drape the presidential mantle over the husky shoulders of Alan Chester Valentine, 33-year-old Master of Yale's Pierson College...
Harvard has been beaten but five times in its 31 encounters, in the last three years bowing only to Yale, and this year's team is a fit successor to that led by Esty Stowell, captain of yesterday, year and intercollegiate backstroke champion...
...takes office on New Year's Day; in point of importance, because he heads not only the most populous state in the Union but the government which is financially the third biggest in the land;* in point of fame, because as Governor he is Franklin Roosevelt's successor, personal friend and model supporter. When "Herbert" first took office on Jan. 1, 1933, his friend "Franklin" was there to wish him well at his inauguration. Friend Franklin was invited to be present again for Herbert's second inauguration but had to decline because the opening of Congress kept...
...This winter's performances are bound to eat up the small guarantee fund raised last spring. The long-discussed merger with the Philharmonic-Symphony has been definitely dropped (TIME, Dec. 24). Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath and his associates will soon have to meet and decide upon a successor for Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza...
...many a year the Valentine Gallery on Manhattan's arty 57th Street has devoted itself to the more advanced of the socially acceptable left-wing artists. Because famed British Critic Paul Nash has referred to him as the successor to Matisse and Picasso; because he has been called a master of impressionistic line; because the people whom Hostess Elsa Maxwell invites to her parties have decided that he is "too, too divine,'' the chaste grey walls of the Valentine Gallery were last week given over to a one-man show of the later drawings of James Grover...