Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...documentation it gives of Stephen Foster's politics. He wrote sentimental songs about the slaves, but did not believe they could be freed. His Pittsburgh family were fairly well-to-do (one brother was vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad) and strong Democrats. James Buchanan, Lincoln's predecessor, was a relative by marriage, and for him Foster in 1856 wrote two campaign songs...
...inclined to make no concessions whatsoever to His Majesty the Emperor (the earthy President would normally think of the Son of Heaven as "that bastard"). Come hell or high water, Harry Truman was in a mood to demand complete surrender, qualified only by the original Potsdam terms and their predecessor, the 1944 Cairo Declaration...
...House desk, President Truman found the capital hot, humid and in the doldrums, and the country's domestic problems piled up in stubborn, mountainous stacks. The first 100 days had come & gone. Now President Truman faced problems which could not be solved by a mere reference to his predecessor's policy. New decisions had to be made -and had to be made by Harry Truman alone...
Cried dapper ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, 66, who had been Pétain's predecessor: "I, like the rest of France, was fooled by the Marshal. ... He tried to destroy what remained of France's soul...
...India. The soldier became the proconsul. But he was unlike any other proconsul who had ever been seen in India. Hitherto it had been deemed a necessity to surround the Viceregal office with a pomp and pageantry that would dazzle even India's dazzling princes. Wavell's predecessor, Lord Linlithgow, a thrifty Scot, used to travel around India in a luxurious, cream-colored train because "Indians are impressed by these things." The new Viceroy arrived in India in a rumpled lounge suit. Instead of taking the royal route through Bombay's imposing "Gateway to India," he went...