Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Julius S. Bixler, Bussey Professor of Theology was prominently mentioned yesterday as the successor of William Allen Neilson, President of Smith College. The board of trustees of the women's college at Northampton met yesterday, with no action announced...
...special committee has been working for some time in order to find a new President, since Neilson is anxious to retire because of age. Dean Hanford has also been suggested as the possible Neilson successor, but it is felt that he would turn down the appointment...
With President Bose's one-year term about up, Saint Gandhi looked around for a more tractable successor. Complicating factor, however, was that the President decided to run for another term, thus openly challenging the Gandhi leadership for the first time. First Gandhi nominee was bearded Persian Scholar Moulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Mohammedan. He promptly withdrew after being hooted out of a meeting. Nominee No. 2 was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Gandhi's right-hand man. He also withdrew. Final choice was Dr. Patthabhi Sitaramayya of Madras, who received Saint Gandhi's and the Congress high command...
...After playing lying, lecherous, dirty Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road for 1,674 shows, James Barton announced he would quit the show this week. Rumored reason: squabbles with other members of the cast. Successor: Vaudeville Impersonator Eddie Garr...
...readers as Edouard Daladier, "Papa" Deibler was latest of a 68-year-long line of Deibler-executioners. He rarely appeared in public except in his official capacity, traveled incognito in a private compartment. Few days after his death, his 80-year-old uncle, Leopold Desfourneaux, was appointed his temporary successor, to execute one Maurice Pelorge, murderer, who had refused the traditional pardon (always offered to the first victim of a new executioner). Connoisseurs complained that Desfourneaux took ten or 15 seconds to Deibler's customary three or four, lacked his nephew's finesse...