Word: succeeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinder, transfixed the attention and curiosity of three high officials of the Salvation Army in a London barrister's office last week. The envelope was the one in which, last year, the late General William Bramwell Booth enclosed the name of the person whom he had chosen to succeed him as worldwide commander of the Army. None dared open the envelope for the dissension it might cause. Some think he named his daughter Catherine, but, as Lawyer Gavin Simmonds declared just prior to last week's burning: "People may guess, may hope and fear, but they cannot know...
London, January 29--Dr. O. M. W. Sprague '94, banking and finance expert of the Harvard Business School, has been made Economic Statistical Adviser to the Board of Governors of the Bank of England. He will succeed Walter W. Stewart and probably will assume his duties in July...
...until just before last week's meeting that he was able, after three unsuccessful party caucuses, to assemble another in Room 1050 at the Hollenden Hotel, three blocks from City Hall, to line up the 13 council votes necessary for City Manager Hopkins' removal. To succeed Mr. Hopkins, the Maschke councilmen chose State Senator Daniel E. Morgan...
...suffered sadly in comparison with Toscanini's. Critics have flayed them unhesitatingly. Mengelberg, who for 35 years has been undisputed musical lord of Amsterdam, is unlikely to be willing to continue as second man in Manhattan. Some say that he will go to San Francisco next year to succeed Conductor Alfred Hertz. Other possible Hertz successors: Bruno Walter and Leo Blech, both Germans...
Foes of Dr. Schacht accused him of playing the grossest sort of politics, of fostering fear as a means of grooming himself for election to succeed president Paul von Hindenburg. "So-I am accused of 'playing politics!' " said smart Dr. Schacht, unruffled. "If what I did was playing politics, then let me say I most heartily welcome the injection of moral factors into politics-they need...