Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consistent assailant of Harvard's tax-exempt position, the lanky young politician may ride into office next fall as Cambridge's new mayor on this very issue. For it is no secret around the city that he is the incumbent Mayor Lyons' most likely successor...
These were some of the 20,000 complaints which have poured in upon Louisiana's curly-haired Senator Allen Joseph Ellender, henchman of the late Huey Long and his successor in Washington. Allen Ellender lacks the Kingfish's political potency and likewise his flair for publicity. But last year he struck a workable vein of publicity when he agitated for a special Senate committee to investigate injustices in Civil Service promotions. He got his committee and $2,500 to finance it. Last week his hearings made headlines in capital dailies. His theme: Why pretty girls get ahead...
...crown. Most important of all, with the Dictator's approval, it "draws up and keeps posted up to date a list of names to be submitted to the crown, in case of vacancy, for the position of Head of the Government [i.e., it elects Il Duce's successor...
...Duce will allow it to do much debating. Why the Dictator took all this trouble to organize a legislative body which will probably be just as much a rubber stamp as the Deputies were will probably remain a dark Fascist mystery. Perhaps Premier Mussolini was thinking of a successor who might be somewhat less a Dictator than...
...curious reporter has ever had a peek at the Grand Council's list but best Rome gossip says Mussolini's successor is likely to be Signor Balbo, Governor of Libya...