Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week went formal notification that their streamlined, syndicated Sunday magazine section This Week has had its first change of editors. Out goes fragile, ailing Mrs. William Brown Meloney, 60, a dominating organizer who has been described as "fine lace made of cable wire." In comes her hand-picked successor, genteel William Ichabod Nichols, 37, ex-publicity man for Harvard, ex-newspaperman (A.P. correspondent at Oxford University), utilities executive (Insull), TVA promotion official...
...Prophets. Conant desires the reappearance of the American radical-of the successor to the men who abolished primogeniture at the founding of the Republic, who "with zest destroyed the Bank of the United States in the times of Andrew Jackson." Such a man will "spring from the American soil," will be firm in the belief that "every man is as good as his neighbor, if not better"; will support "the ideas of Jefferson as against the more aristocratic and monarchical conceptions drawn from Europe"; and will have for his prophets not Marx, Engels and Lenin (to whom he will...
Died. William Andrew Johnson, 87, onetime slave of President Andrew Johnson; in Knoxville. In 1937 he chatted with Franklin Roosevelt about the Emancipator's successor, received an FDR-initialed silver-headed cane to take back to his pastry kitchen...
Widely broadcasting its claims to successor-ship to "Social Justice," a new monthly paper which manifests all the undemocratic traits of Father Coughlin's banned paper has made its appearance. Already it is receiving acclaim and active support to an extent which indicates not individual but organized interest...
...Stuart, Jubal Early, A. P. Hill R. S. Ewell, D. H. Hill, J. B. Hood, R. H. Anderson, W. N. Pendleton. Detailed, scholarly examination of every inch of the battlefields is coupled with dramatic descriptions of men in action, adding up to an invaluable period piece. A fine successor to Author Freeman's classic four-volume biography, R. E. Lee (TIME...