Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand at politics. Over radio station CJBR at Rimouski, Que., Coté said flatly that the Prime Minister, after his severe bout with a cold, looked "old and worn out." "Mr. King," he said, "wants a [Liberal Party] convention before his retirement," so that a successor may be chosen. "I believe that this convention will take place in 1948, probably in Montreal...
...high priest of surrealism (the successor of Dada), delicate little, white-haired Max Ernst was still going strong but his new show in a Manhattan gallery last week lacked something-the schoolgirl perhaps-which made that first exhibition memorable. Dada was a granddad now. And nowadays the visitors brandished checkbooks instead of hatchets. Instead of a live little virgin they found merely a semi-abstract painting distinguished by two nobbed streaks representing breasts or eyes, and entitled Foolish Virgins...
...Cabinet meetings and was obviously too tired to make more than a show of running things. To no one's great surprise, all this stepped up rumors flooding Parliament Hill that a retirement might be imminent, that at long last the P.M. was thinking hard about nominating a successor. But who-and when...
...George, Owen had been Parliament's youngest member. At 32, he had left the Express to become the Socialist editor of Imperialist Beaverbrook's Evening Standard (the Beaver did not forbid dissenting opinions, but only dull ones, from such bright-pink young men as Owen and his successor Michael Foot). On the Standard, Owen had tramped hard on Tory toes, squawked against Chamberlain's appeasers...
Died. Carrie Chapman Catt, 88, militant matriarch of world feminists, successor to the late Susan B. Anthony as leader of the fight for U.S. women's suffrage, founder of the National League of Women Voters; in New Rochelle, N.Y. After the suffragettes' 1920 victory (the 19th Amendment), she looked around for new arenas, crusaded vigorously for world peace, meanwhile kept a sharp eye on women's rights at home & abroad...