Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Idler's policy of introducing new plays side-by-side with established classic has resulted in such past successor as the 1937 performance of Auden's "The Dog Beneath the Skin" and 1942's Mashenka...
...cold wind blew out of the deep wooded Hudson valley and a bleak half-light streaked across the sky, President Roosevelt's widow and his successor stood in silence, with bowed heads. Only Secret Service men were near...
...made one big mistake. In 1930, confident that his empire was secure, he retired. In his search for a successor he hit upon a Wall Street man, well-starched, dignified, M.I.T.-educated Elisha Walker of Blair & Co., turned over control to him, departed for Europe...
...liberal Harry Emerson Fosdick wanted to retire three years ago as pastor of the Riverside Church. His trustees persuaded him to wait out the war, later agreed to fix the date as his 68th birthday: May 24, 1946. Last week, with that date at hand, the congregation announced his successor, Robert James McCracken, 42, professor of church history and the philosophy of religion at Ontario's McMaster University...
Shvernik's successor as trade-union boss, and perhaps as Vice President of the Soviet Union, is Vasili Vasilevich Kuznetsov, who is even more cosmopolitan than Shvernik-he was educated at Carnegie Tech and worked in a U.S. Ford plant. When he returned to Russia, he reported so enthusiastically about his life & times in the U.S. that friends kept snapping: "Well, if you liked it so much there, why don't you go back?" Conforming to Peter's Western ideal, he is clean-shaven...