Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress, Minnesota's egg-bald Representative Harold Knutson said: "This is definitely a labor government, and there can no longer be any doubt that the President proposes to give labor all that they ask for, and perhaps more. ... If [he] wants to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor and purchase his re-election at the expense of the public, the onus for doing so must rest upon...
When American Airlines' fast-growing predecessor, American Airways, swallowed T.A.T.'s successor, Southern Air Transport, in 1929, Hardin became American Airways chief pilot and general manager. Nine years later, a member and later chairman of the Air Safety Board of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, he helped write the safety regulations that made U.S. commercial aviation the safest in the world. Later, for the Defense Supplies Corp. he helped purge Latin American aviation companies of Nazi control, then joined the Air Corps as a lieutenant colonel...
Eleanor Roosevelt, still in mourning, and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were at the Navy Yard. Standing bareheaded on the Roosevelt's flight deck, while others clutched at their hats in the stiff breeze, Harry Truman hailed his predecessor as the "father of the new American Navy...
...field was society gossip. Igor's most famous predecessor, the late Maury Henry Biddle Paul, made $100,000 a year out of writing, in his own brand of pink perfume, about the half-world of Manhattan's cafe society for 60 U.S. papers. Igor Cassini hopes to do even better: he will concentrate on what he thinks is the International Smart Set; his ambition is worldwide syndication...
Accordingly, the conspirators determined to overthrow Hitler and expose his reckless gambling to the German people. "The leaders . . . were myself, General Erwin von Witzleben, commander of the Berlin garrison; Colonel General Ludwig Beck, my predecessor; Count von Helldorf, police president of Berlin; General von Brockdorf, head of the Potsdam garrison, and General Edwin von Stülpnagel. The commander in chief, von Brauchitsch, had been informed of the conspiracy...