Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study the idea of setting up a special division in the Department of Justice to do a new job-protect civil liberties. He said that protecting the rights of a "protesting and insecure" people was a matter close to his heart. > Frank D. Fitzgerald, Mr. Murphy's successor as Governor of Michigan, last week asked his legislature to outlaw sit-down strikes, of which his predecessor had plenty...
Ohio. In his second week as Governor, John W. Bricker (successor to Democrat Martin Davey) had fired 2,000 State employes. Ever a ready trough for jobbing politicos, the Highway Department supplied 1,310 of the dismissals. Politicians normally expect to slip in their followers after economy waves subside, but local dispensers in Ohio last week were actually worried lest John Bricker keep the vacancies vacant...
...learned Jews of Alexandria translated the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek (the Septuagint), tinkering with the Holy Bible has been a prime occupation of scholars. The King James Version, most familiar to the English-speaking world (ordered by the late Queen Elizabeth's pious, witch-hunting successor), is a 17th-Century revision in the light of then available Greek and Hebrew texts. The Revised Version (1881, 1885) was meant to bring the Bible up to date; the Goodspeed-Smith "American" Bible of a few years ago did so even more thoroughly. Last week, in Chicago, Professor William Louis...
Directed by spidery, snapping-eyed, sagacious Curator Paul Rivet, this exhibition is a worthy successor to the old Trocadéro's exhibit of comparative sculpture. Best idea: arranging showcases like text and footnotes in a book, one line of cases along left walls giving a bird's-eye impression of each period of each civilization, while other cases standing out from distant right walls contain complete museum collections. Smartest mechanical innovation: a show case which displays any one of nine related objects at the touch of a button, a great improvement on the usual system of showing...
Massachusetts citizens began to speculate on Mr. Reardon's likely successor...