Word: predecessors
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Private Chats. On the first point of his mission, George Messersmith has succeeded extraordinarily well-helped not a little by Juan Perón's intense dislike of Messersmith's predecessor, hulking, excitable Spruille Braden. Just a few days after his arrival in Buenos Aires last May, Messersmith was informed by an influential Argentine that Perón would welcome a private chat. The meeting was held, and was followed by similar get-togethers. The two men took each other's measure, and talked through the whole range of U.S.-Argentine problems...
Died. South Trimble, 82, dour-faced, preacherish Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, three-time Congressman from Kentucky; of pneumonia; in Washington. During a record total of 23 years (1911-19, 1931-46) in the clerkship, he signed more appropriation bills than any predecessor, ran the complex machinery of the House as a genial steward runs a club. His duties: filing House documents, disbursing payrolls, recording bills, drafting and engrossing messages, indexing the daily calendar...
Ingredient No. 3. Who was the mysterious lawyer? He turned out to be Theodore Granik, counsel for the U.S. Housing Authority (predecessor to NHA) till 1941, onetime special adviser to WPB and now operator of "American Forum," a radio discussion program...
...Plotters is as badly organized as its predecessor, and once more readers will have to make allowances for Author Carlson's enthusiasm. Though most of the book's "plotters" are boobs and fanatics in white sheets or black shirts, Carlson lists the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, etc. among the groups competing for "postwar America's most precious prize": the millions of former soldiers & sailors. But once again he cites names, dates and documents to show that anti-Catholic, antiSemitic, anti-Negro doctrines still flourish in the U.S. Author Carlson's analysis of certain veterans...
Jules Remains, marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), was initiated into the august French Academy. He wore the traditional brocaded, green dress suit and the dress sword, but he skipped the traditional speech praising his predecessor. Predecessor Abel Bonnard had been kicked out of the Academy as a collaborationist...