Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black casket of the only millionaire on the Court rested beneath six wavy-flamed candles in the gloom of St. Matthews Church, the man most mentioned last week as Pierce Butler's successor could jingle all his wealth in his jeans at any time. Frank Murphy, once Mayor of Detroit, High Commissioner to the Philippines, now Attorney General of the U. S., was freely nominated by the Palace Janizariat to Butler's seat before the black drapes were placed there...
Franklin Roosevelt, now in no mood to hurry, announced he did not intend to appoint a successor to Justice Butler until next January...
...long run musical from bogging down are changes of interpretation and ad libbing. Already he has ad libbed several lines which have been incorporated into the script. For instance, in that classic scene in the men's room of a small night club, where he is coaching his successor as washroom attendant and telling him the chance of promotion, he ad libbed, "Why, if you click in this joint, you may work up to some four-sinker like the 'Mayfair...
...reputed to have made them give him undated resignations. When he wanted to tell them something, he called them to him, whether he was in his office or at his Gull Lake estate. Last week, however, it appeared that the autocrat of the breakfast foods, 79, had picked his successor...
Singing "Challedon, my Challedon" (tune of Maryland, My Maryland) 25,000 hoarse-voiced fans saluted the Horse of the Year, a worthy successor to Seabiscuit and War Admiral. It looked as if young Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt had chirped a mouthful...