Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successor to Tiny Tower, St. Nicholas went into Woolworth stores last week. Its price was cut from 25? to 10?. It sported a bright two-color format like Tiny Tower's. Oldtime readers of St. Nicholas would never have recognized its pages, filled with crude, bold drawings of camels and hippopotamuses and monkeys, pictures to be cut out and mounted, nursery fables in the style of Thornton Burgess...
...implying that he will nominate a successor to Wage & Hour Administrator Elmer Andrews as soon as Neutrality is out of Congress' way, the President confirmed reports that Mr. Andrews is to be replaced (see below...
...bronzed, amiable, who works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer can. He has performed special functions in PWA, Resettlement, Farm Security, supervised the attempt to harness the Bay of Fundy's tides at Passamaquoddy. First problem Andrews' successor must face: enforcement of the Oct. 24 minimum wage boost to 30? (from 25?) per hour; the maximum workweek reduction from 44 hours...
Death last week took from the Senate a quiet, kindly, able Southern judge, baggy-kneed, baggy-faced Marvel Mills Logan (TIME, Oct. 9). In jigtime the Senate this week got as his successor the nearest thing to Huey Long since the Kingfish was shot to death...
...tact, Mr. Conant chose as Plan Chairman a man who had real interest in the program and a willingness to devote his abilities to it. But pressure of duties in his new rank as assistant dean have forced him to resign and the President has failed to name any successor. The possibilities for the position are apparently limited in the presidential mind to the members of the Committee sponsoring the Plan: the professors of American History and Literature. But one of these is following in the wake of Columbus, another is writing a book, a third is too busy...