Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in Canada as U.S. military air attache in Ottawa was Colonel Jack C. Hodgson, 49, who had been commander for 20 months of the wartime U.S.A.A.F. in central Canada. (His predecessor as attache had only the permanent rank of lieutenant.) One of Colonel Hodgson's last acts as commander of the theater had been to turn over to Canada four airfields, one the big field at Churchill with its paved, 6,000-ft. runways, and ten scattered weather stations throughout the north. This brought the current number of U.S. military attaches in Ottawa to three ground forces officers...
Wanted: A Vote Getter. Until The Hat plunked into their ring, most Democrats had assumed that quiet, ailing former Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who was LaGuardia's predecessor as head of UNRRA, would be their Senate candidate. Now many who liked Lehman looked at the hard facts of political life and reconsidered...
...tell TIME'S readers why Ambassador Harriman gave his cocktail party. The party was a long overdue and valuable contribution to Embassy morale and Anglo-American friendship in London. It was also a spectacular and successful announcement to London that the austere regime of Mr. Harriman's predecessor, John Winant, was ended...
...seen in recent years--a forward wall which included such rugged characters as Club Peabody Dick Pflster, Loren MacKinney, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller--he's been wistfully seeking its equal. To predict that this year's Beef Trust will be a replica of that famous pre-war predecessor is wishful thinking only for the most partial of Crimson rooters, but a midsummer glance at the situation has enough bright spots to lead to moderately pleasant speculation...
...constitution is what is needed to solve student problems that are peculiar to Harvard. But this law-making by conjure has achieved just the reverse. Ten years later this product of an elite father and an indifferent mother finds itself in greater disrepute than its pre-1936, constitution-less, predecessor. Ten years in which nearly 50 percent of all members got their start through appointment to one of the unelected Freshman committee and, with this initial advantage, proceeded through four years of Harvard politics to eventual appointment or "election" to the Council. Again, this is not evidence of lack...