Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooks Emeny, 45-year-old Cleveland writer on foreign affairs (Mainsprings of World Politics), and president of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, was made president of the Foreign Policy Association, top-ranking citizens' group for the study of international problems. His predecessor: 72-year-old Major General Frank R. McCoy...
Both in content and make-up the 1947-48 catalogue of courses improves markedly upon its immediate predecessor. So far as the fall and spring terms go, the catalogue has grown in thickness and quality back to 1940 dimensions. Furthermore, it celebrates the return to business as usual by reviving the prewar practise of bracketing courses omitted for one year, but to be resumed the following year. Only the summer term remains as a blight upon an otherwise noteworthy issue of the Official Register of Harvard University...
...absence of philosophical thinking in a book by a professional philosopher might seem a damning defect. In Philosopher's Quest, as in its predecessor (the best-selling Philosopher's Holiday), it is meant to be a source of charm. Professor Edman's gift for talking about philosophy has made him one of the prides of Columbia's faculty and a crowd-drawing lecturer. The same gift, at work in his good-humored essays, will endear him to readers who do not wish to put up their hands and ask searching questions...
...even before Uncle Joe sat down, the diners had been reminded that Grundyism was all but dead & buried. The reminder came from the newly elected Republican Governor, James Henderson Duff, a protege of his predecessor, now U.S. Senator Edward Martin...
Ramadier's alternative to rising wages is lower prices. His predecessor, Socialist Elder Statesman Leon Blum, checked last December's inflation spurt with a dramatic decree cutting all prices 5%. Ramadier, aware that this turned out to be the most popular move in domestic French politics since liberation, this week decreed another 5% cut. This hold-the-line policy, plus Jean Monnet's plan for reconstruction of French industry and exports, constitutes France's chief and perhaps only hope of stability...