Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans have been completed for the Harvard Progressive, a monthly publication in magazine format to replace the Student Progressive, Editor Martin P. Mayor '47 announced last night. Like its predecessor, the Progressive will be published by the Harvard Liberal Union and distributed to colleges represented in the Boston Metropolitan Council and to the Connecticut College for Women...
Chilean democrats worried as they eyed the new, deadlocked Congress, which promised no more action than its predecessor. Their Popular Front Government still existed, in spite of rightist gains. But all their neighbor countries-Argentina, Peru, Bolivia-were governed non-democratically. Unless Chile's drifting President and bickering Congress got together, the problems following peace might result in a retreat to dictatorship...
...Yankee Pipp, Lou Gehrig's slugging predecessor at first base, is off base. Farley never quite brought himself to back his ambition with cash...
Light in the Darkness. There Nimitz found, in his own concise summation, "too many people and too much pessimism." His attitude toward his luckless predecessor, Kimmel, was that of a professional who sees a brother officer under the lash of defeat: "There, but for the grace...
...Director? There was also the problem of the Suez Canal. Like Egypt, King Farouk was still making political payments on a predecessor's sins. The world was indebted to them too. For 75 years ago Khedive Ismail Pasha had defrayed the costs of his irrepressible gallantries by selling a European company the right to construct and operate the canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Great Britain (militarily) and France (administratively) controlled the canal. If not exactly friends, these powers had become old familiars with whom Egypt could quarrel cozily whenever it became necessary to assert her dignity...