Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week as the nation buried Frank Knox in Arlington Cemetery, almost every public figure but Sewell Avery was being mentioned as his successor. Among them: Under Secretary Forrestal, 52, a Democrat, ex-president of Wall Street's Dillon Read & Co., and now Acting Secretary; Admiral William D. Leahy; Democrats Lyndon Johnson and Charles Edison; Republicans Wendell Willkie, Eric Johnston and Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen...
...successor of the Keynes (British) and White (U.S.) plans for stabilizing postwar monetary exchange was last week announced to a sympathetic Congress by Secretary Morgenthau. This one is also only a plan- still to be formally drafted and not yet agreed to by any nation-but it is not one man's or one nation's idea. It was worked out by 100-odd experts of 34 nations. Its concrete proposals...
...moved out of his rose-carpeted office last week to a separate part of the Wrigley Building to make way for his successor, the 70-year-old ex-vice president and treasurer, James Clifton Cox, but he took with him a lot of postwar ideas about gum policy. K rations have taught him to hope for a large packaged soup-to-nuts business, from relief lunches for starving Europeans to substitutes for the dinner pails of U.S. factory workers...
...surprisingly, he surrenders the all-important Foreign Ministry, gossips' candidates for his successor are Permanent Foreign Under Secretary Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with muggin') and Robert Arthur James Cecil, Viscount Cran-borne, Dominions Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords. Stooped, willowy, witty Lord Cranborne and Eden were known as the "Foreign Office Twins" when they worked together in the governments of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Their views were so close together that when Eden quit as Foreign Secretary in 1938 in protest against appeasement, Lord Cranborne, his Under Secretary, followed with outspoken approval. Nothing since...
...will find Boston a city of contrasts. In the very same week that a new novel is banned and thirteen men are arrested for "gaming on the Lord's day," you will find Errol Flynn's successor getting a big play in the newspapers and the Tassel Queen still reigning supreme...