Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...immediate rebuttal to Willingdon's appointment to India was the question of who should succeed him as Governor General in Canada. Once more the press was ready with a plethora of names. For the time being it seemed unlikely that Canada would follow Australia, insist on a native Governor. Strangest suggestion was the converted Boer, onetime South African Prime Minister General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Most likely: either the Duke of York (it is known that King George is anxious for the duke to have administrative training as a possible heir to the throne) or Queen Mary's brother...
...13th. The political spot-light shifted from the Chamber of Deputies to its parliamentary commission investigating the famous Oustric Scandal. Observers realized that until former Prime Minister Andre Tardieu was completely whitewashed of any complicity in the swindles of Banker Albert Oustric it would be impossible for him to succeed to the prime ministry on the fall of the Steeg cabinet, a move which many French newspapers continued to urge last week. Nervy, plump-cheeked Albert Oustric started his career before the War as plain "Albert," a white-aproned waiter in a Toulouse cafe. A little influence kept...
...Guatemala the Vice President, the Secretary of State and Cabinet members in order of departmental seniority do not succeed the President in case of illness or death SK in the U. S., but First and Second ''Designates" are chosen by Congress...
...Last week he accepted it, uttered regrets. Reason given by Col. Knox: "... A difference of opinion as to methods of management." Friends said that Col. Knox had saved all his Hearst salary, that he is well supported by the interest which he still holds in the Union & Leader. To succeed Col. Knox, Publisher Hearst named Thomas J. White, vice president of International Magazine Co., Inc., onetime employe of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s export department. His first task will be to com plete a careful reduction in personnel, ordered last fortnight by Publisher Hearst...
...hand was seen behind all this? Obviously that of M. Tardieu, journalist by profession, and among journalists the most popular French Prime Minister of all time. For once the "power of the press" was being thrown full into the scale to aid a newspaperman. Chances that M. Tardieu would succeed himself as Prime Minister brightened hourly. If in Paris there were some guilty editorial consciences, this fact eased them: both Chamber and Senate are so evenly divided between Right and Left that no real preponderance exists. The last vote of confidence in the lower house supported the Tardieu cabinet...