Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidents, remembering their clash on the matter of loyalty oaths with Burns' predecessor on the Committee, accepted the offer...
...Which do I mean?' he said. 'Right or left? Well, you know, the way we don't want it to be. We think the regents should do a lot of investigating of that department. It's so radically different from what it used to be under (Mitchell's predecessor...
...this point the "Granstein Plan" rears its mathematical head; for in 1937 there was a revolt among the Faculty which led to an entire revision of the appointment apparatus. The problem of tenure had become increasingly difficult for President Conant because his predecessor had personally decided to retain men on the Faculty who had not qualified for permanent appointments. During the depression these men were a decided strain on the budget and Conant felt he had to start trimming the payroll. He gave orders that all non-permanent appointees, with a few exceptions in each department, would have to leave...
...Aircraft Co. rolled out its latest attack bomber for the Navy, a jet called the A4D and a member of an unusual new family of U.S. warplanes. The A4D, with stubby, delta wings, is light and uncomplicated,* weighs only 8,300 Ibs. unloaded compared to 11,800 for its predecessor, the AD Skyraider...
...Falvey, 49, an expert on law and labor relations, was elected president and chief executive officer of Electric Auto-Lite Co., the world's biggest independent manufacturer of automobile electrical equipment (30 plants in the U.S. and Canada). Falvey is the complete opposite of his rugged, swashbuckling predecessor, Royce G. Martin (onetime paymaster for Pancho Villa), who died minutes after his horse Goyamo ran in the 1954 Kentucky Derby (TIME, May 10). Falvey joined Auto-Lite in 1934, when it bought out Moto-Meter Gauge and Equipment Corp., for which he was patent attorney. He built up Auto-Lite...