Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hanford MacNider may not run for office next autumn but, as Washington judges men, he will run for something, somewhere, soon. As Washington judges politicians, he will get there. In. Col. MacNider's successor, chosen at his suggestion months ago, was another Iowa banker and American Legionary, Col. Charles Burton Robbins of Cedar Rapids. Aged 50, Col. Robbins served against the Spaniards, was wounded in the head. He has an insurance business (Cedar Rapids Life). He has been a judge. As able a Big-Desk man as his young predecessor he is more the type of man who will...
...best things in life are free" came the words, and the Vagabond felt relieved. A worthy successor to "Horses, Horses, Horses", "Yes, We Have No Bananas", and "Barney Google...
Besides attending their colleague's funeral, the Senate's emissaries listened closely to political talk in New Mexico, waiting to hear who would be the late Senator Jones's successor...
...Poland, a bandleader waved his baton, a violinist scratched his fiddle, other members of a jazz-orchestra made their respective sounds. For 33 hours and ten minutes the bandleader lead his determined performers through one jazz song after another, an interval of 45 seconds distinguishing each song from its successor. Then the bandleader stopped, mopped his face, and claimed that his orchestra had gained a record-the record for playing longer than any other jazz-orchestra...
...small Baptist institution, in 1862. In the years that followed, the University of Chicago crumbled slowly; in 1886, the year after Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed went back to become a Doctor of Divinity, it became extinct. This made Dr. Goodspeed sad and thoughtful; he saw the need for a successor to his small and defunct alma mater, a successor which should be larger, intellectually more potent, better endowed, nonsectarian. He therefore went to John Davison Rockefeller, in 1889 already a famed financier, and explained to him why Chicago needed a university, why such a university deserved strong financial support. After listening...