Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome, dashing General MacArthur's four-year tour of duty as No. 1 Soldier of the U. S. was due to expire. No successor was named. Instead, an unprecedented order from the White House continued him in office another 30 days. Secretary of War Dern sorely needed General MacArthur to push military legislation in the coming Congress, to continue his army modernization plans. Despite a law which specifies four years of service for the General Staff Corps, Secretary Dern wanted the President to reappoint General MacArthur for another four years. Seldom bound by legal convention, and apparently without...
Philadelphia had never known such a musical pother, such tongue-wagging and intrigue which appeared to lead nowhere. Stokowski was resigning, he said, because of "deep-lying differences'' with the board and its failure to appoint a suitable successor to Manager Arthur Judson (TIME, Dec. 17). Since the board seemed to be the cause of the trouble, Curtis Bok wanted to create a new one which would be more sympathetic to Conductor Stokowski. "By sympathy," said Mr. Bok. "I mean more than acquiescence. I mean an understanding and awareness of what he is trying...
...reasons which Stokowski gave for his resignation were "deep-lying differences" with the board and its failure to appoint a suitable successor to Manager Arthur Judson. Stokowski's contract for this season expires Dec. 26. In his open letter to the board he said: "You have not been able to find and engage an executive director that is acceptable to the majority of you and to me, and so I have not been able to make the great number of detailed arrangements that would be absolutely essential for the coming season if it were to be carried...
Keppel is the successor of C. Colmery Gibson '37, of Atlanta, Georgia, who was chairman of last year's board. Deric Nusbaum '36, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was the editor-in-chief for the Class...
...Salamanca President while the Liberal bosses were electing a man of their own vice president, a beet-nosed banker named José Luis Tejada Sorzano. Last month another presidential election was approaching. President Salamanca, who had already lost one son in the War, wanted to elect a Genuine Republican successor and keep the war going. He was faced with the worst kind of campaign material: news of the great Paraguayan victories on the northern front. Since he had assured his countrymen again & again that Fort Ballivian was "impregnable," he ordered his generals to take most of their troops...