Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the ashes of Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy (TIME, March 15) were ceremoniously buried in the chancel of Westminster's blitzed St. Margaret's Church, The House of Commons assembled to "elect" his successor. Actually, the new Speaker had already been selected by the majority Conservative Party, approved by Laborites; it only remained for the House to play through a venerable mumbo jumbo...
Colonel Francis A. Doniat, PMS&T at Harvard and leader of both the Quarter-master and Field Artillery R. O. T. C. units for a year has been transferred to special duty with the War Manpower Commission, and left yesterday for Washington, D. C. His successor here will be Colonel William S. Wood, at present commanding officer at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont...
Obligingly, Democrat Kennedy resigned just before year's end, forcing the election of a successor in next month's off-year election. Democrats planned to run popular Murray D. Van Wagoner, who was Highway Commissioner for seven years until he jumped to the Governor's chair in 1941, led the Democratic ticket last November although he failed of reelection...
Colonel Francis A. Doniat, professor of Military Sciences and Tactics and leader of the Harvard R. O. T. C.'s since March 17, 1942, will leave college on March 11 for duty with the War Manpower Commission. His successor is Colonel William S. Wood, at present commanding officer of Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont...
...Bolshevism, it has been said, is a new religion, fanatical and iconoclastic. Such a view would present Mr. Stalin as Khaled the successor to Mohammed. Personally I doubt this. I see Mr. Stalin as the clear-minded statesman who looks at East and West . . . both ways at once...