Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mohandas Gandhi, who recently resigned his leadership of the Indian National Congress when many of its members seemed more anxious about India's war defenses than about Gandhian nonresistance (TIME, Jan. 12), announced last week that his successor would be his old Party comrade, socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru...
...William Graham Sumner. "He broke upon us," said a pupil, "like a cold spring in the desert." For 37 years Yale students were stimulated by that cold spring. When Sumner retired in 1909, an equally remarkable teacher took his chair. Last week Sumner's barrel-chested, stern-eyed successor, Professor Albert Galloway Keller, faced his last class...
Sumner himself chose Keller as his successor. He also left his pupil 52 big drawers jammed with 156,000 pages of notes. Keller spent 17 years organizing them and in 1927 produced an immense work in four volumes, Science of Society, which he credited mainly to Sumner. Once, when Connecticut's ex-Governor Wilbur L. Cross intimated at a public meeting that there was more Keller than Sumner in the book, Keller leaped to his feet to denounce the idea. But last week the William Graham Sumner Club (old Sumner and Keller pupils) decided that bluff Bert Keller...
Steinhardt, who succeeds John Van A. MacMurray at Ankara, will work with Envoy-at-Large William Christian Bullitt, now in the Near East, and with his own successor in Moscow, probably Major General James H. Burns, a great admirer of the Russian Army...
...Hodder's successor is an experienced hockey player. While in College, Chase won six major H's, three in baseball and three in hockey. In his final year he captained the sextet, and in 1932 he also headed the U.S. Olympic hockey team. Aiding him will be George "Skeets" Canterbury '01, coach of Crimson goalies for many years, who returns after half a season's layoff...