Word: predecessor
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...important in all Latin America. For the key post of ambassador in Caracas, President Truman last week nominated Fletcher Warren, 55, onetime ambassador to Nicaragua and Paraguay, who has served for the past year as director of the State Department's Office of South American Affairs. Like his predecessor, the veteran Norman Armour, Warren is a career diplomat and an old Latin America hand. He should be at home among the 30,000 Texans now living and working in oil-minded Venezuela. Six feet seven inches tall, he was born in Wolfe City, Texas, worked his way through...
Frick inherits some tough problems-falling attendance everywhere, radio and TV competition, West Coast howls for a third league, and, most serious, Congress' investigation of baseball's reserve clause (which prevents a player from selling his services to the highest bidder). Unlike his predecessor, Frick is too cagey to put his foot in his mouth by way of opening it. Baseball's problems can be ironed out, he feels, but "I don't want to go saying things now that will sound silly later. I am not a reformer. You have to make changes slowly...
...Anderson will meet each other for the second time today. Anderson inherited a one and nine team and last year won four, lost five, and tied one. Jordan moved in after a one and eight season, but lacking the freshmen Anderson got, he was unable to improve upon his predecessor's record...
WHRB will start its broadcasting this year with a new transmitter carrying more than three times the power of its predecessor. The 100 watt machine, combined with a new United Press teletype and the remodeling of WHRB's Dudley Hall studios is "intended for better coverage and better quality of sound," according to William R. Lamb '52, station technical director...
Like the vast and on-going war it covers, Crusade in the Pacific differs considerably from its predecessor. The Allied troops in Europe made up a tight-knit team under Supreme Commander Eisenhower, whose quarterbacking story set the pattern for Crusade in Europe. In the Pacific war, the Marine, Navy, Army and Air outfits fought under various separate and shifting commands that sometimes passed the ball to each other, more often starred individually in sallies against the enemy. Even today, MOT's research staff often has to dig long and well to resolve hard-held disagreement over the strategy...