Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sober warning: "President Johnson is running what may be termed the rhetoric risk. He likes to promise everybody something and to dream aloud, admittedly more often in the language of the Snopes family than of Aristotle, about the wonderful future that is acoming. As a Texan and an heir to that state's neoPopulist traditions, he is a natural master of the America-is-agreat-big-wonderful-barbecue school of politics...
...warlords, the Japanese and the Communists, introduced the 1949 Taiwan land reform that made 90% of the farmers masters of the land they worked, and until his own ill health and the rising fortunes of Chiang's son reduced his power, was regarded as the Generalissimo's heir presumptive; of liver cancer; in Taipei...
...BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS: Gordon Freeman is 69, and so is his heir apparent Joe Keenan...
...Cabinet, Demirel, 41, a Western-minded economist, is Deputy Premier, and his resurgent party holds ten of 22 Cabinet posts. As the political heir of the late irresponsible but popular Strongman Adnan Menderes, the Justice Party is still distrusted by the real power in Turkey, the army. Demirel wants to show that he can regain the army's confidence and that the army-backed Inönü is not indispensable...
...bankers are better connected or more respected than this distinctly unstuffy and independent lord, who, at 46, is known in London's clubby society circles as "Rowlie." He is the heir to the Baring banking fortune, a godson of the late King George V, and son-in-law of Lord Rothermere the press lord. He has all the marks of aristocracy: Eton, Cambridge (he dropped out after a year), wartime service in the Grenadier Guards, and a postwar stint with J. P. Morgan & Co. in Manhattan before he became managing director of the family bank in 1947. Sent...