Word: successor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wagner quit just in time to do his fellow Democrats the most good. Had he resigned after July 8, Governor Thomas E. Dewey could have appointed a Republican successor to serve until January 1951. Now, although Dewey may appoint someone to fill the post temporarily, a special fall election must be held to elect a Senator to fill out Wagner's term. New Yorkers were in for some hot, midsummer politicking. The Senator's unexciting son, Robert F. Wagner Jr., hinted that he would like the job. Tom Dewey said he didn't want it himself...
...Sergeants Stoker and Jackson, along with six other cops, were shifted to the sticks. But that didn't stop the hue & cry. Last week Police Chief Horrall, whom honest Mayor Fletcher Bowron has frequently praised as the best police chief to be found anywhere, retired. As his successor Mayor Bowron picked a man whom he thought even Brenda couldn't faze: Major General William A. Worton, who served as chief of staff of the Marines' III Amphibious Corps at Okinawa...
This week, McCloy, who has good reasons for hating the worst and loving the best of Germany, is getting ready to go back there as U.S. High Commissioner, the civilian successor to General Lucius D. Clay. McCloy will have to negotiate (which is what he does best) with the French, the British and the Russians, but his main job will be to bear a heavy share of the responsibility for suppressing the worst in the Germans, drawing out the best. For this people have the greatest capacity for good & evil in Europe, and the future of the world may turn...
Hamilton Holt's own idea for a successor was "either an old man of renown, or a young man with promise." Last week, the trustees voted for youth. At 31, big (6 ft. 1 in.), jut-jawed Paul Alexander Wagner, businessman and former instructor in education at the University of Chicago, will be the nation's youngest college president. When Rollins found him he was No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell...
...more of a surprise to Manhattan critics. Since Canadian-born Edward Johnson announced his retirement in 1950, they had been murmuring such names as Lawrence Tibbett, Lauritz Melchior, even Billy Rose as his successor. The New York Times's highbrow Olin Downes suggested that some people would consider it "time an American were appointed to head America's greatest operatic institution." The nobrow Daily News fired off an editorial: "Fair Shake for American Talent...