Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's press conference, President Eisenhower, although he didn't say so, borrowed a leaf from his Republican predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt. Agreeing with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, who had complained that Americans have been doing too much "atom rattling" by scare headlines and speeches warning of the nation's military might, the President said he has spent some little time at war, and he didn't think that big and bombastic talk was the thing that other people fear...
...George Tipton Naff, 53, became president of Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., owner and operator of the Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines. He has been the company's executive vice president since 1948, was closely associated during most of his business life with his predecessor, R. H. Hargrove, killed in the same plane crash that took the life of Airline President Thomas Braniff (TIME...
Last week Athenagoras observed his fifth anniversary in a job in which his predecessor went mad.* His power in matters of faith, order and polity is far more limited than that of the Pope; yet he is looked upon as "Elder Brother" by the churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia,. Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, ATHENAGORAS I On a wooden throne, a nylon ruler...
...main, Rojas has kept that promise : he stopped the four-year war between the brutal policemen-followers of his fanatically Conservative predecessor, Lau-reano Gomez, and the Gomez-hating Liberal guerrillas. Although a Conservative himself, Rojas fired the cops, earning their hatred, and amnestied the Liberals, earning their gratitude. The new peacebreakers are mostly Laureanista ex-cops, far gone in the habit of murder and bitter toward Rojas and the Liberals...
...hand. He has a research and secretarial staff and a personal theologian, an Irish priest named Michael Browne, but, as in the days when he was a "library mouse," the Pope loves to do his own research. He will not trust a secretary to verify a quotation. Unlike his predecessor (who locked it in a closet), Pius XII uses his telephone constantly; he has a one-way line-no one can dial the Pope...