Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neither the present Argentine Government nor its predecessor has at any time evidenced a disposition to strengthen the security of Argentina by having Argentine military and naval forces take part in measures designed for the defense of the hemisphere. . . . Since Argentine armed forces will not . . . be used . . . to forward . . . the security of the New World . . . it would be impossible for the President of the United States to . . . furnish arms and munitions to Argentina under the Lend-Lease...
Forty years later (the Church moves deliberately under the aspect of eternity) Pius XI affirmed his predecessor's policy in the encyclical Quadragesima Anno. He pointed to the growing danger of "atheistic Communism" and Socialism. He also criticized capitalism for its religious and human indifference to the conditions of the workers and for the way in which more & more power was concentrated in the hands of fewer & fewer capitalists. Liberalism† the Pope called "the father of Socialism" and declared that its "heir" is Bolshevism; for, like Communists, most Catholics regard liberals as people who would be Communists...
Aethelred, being before his time, adopted a policy of appeasement and paid Olaf, predecessor of Sweyn, ?10,000 to give up his first raid. After that Aethelred paid consecutively ?16,000, ?24,000, and finally ?36,000, but when the price of peace reached ?48,000 Aethelred collected a great fleet, ordered a general massacre of the Danish fifth column, and decreed a great levy of troops-his idea of selective service. Politics and traitorous quarrels disrupted the navy and the army; so that Sweyn overran England while Aethelred fled. The policy of opportunism had paved the path for William...
Pentagon pundits offered explanations: 1) his predecessor, Major General Russell P. ("Scrappy") Hartle (new assignment unannounced), was due for relief from 18 months of duty overseas; 2) Townsend Gerow holds the confidence of Chief of Staff George Marshall, whom he followed by ten years at Virginia Military Institute.* Best guess was that Gerow's reputation earned him a job that may take him to the bridgeheads on Western Europe. He is one of the Army's top infantry tacticians...
Like its New York inspiration, this is a hodge-podge of stars--actors, singers, dancers, band leaders-all rolled up into one supposedly stupendous entity. unlike the real thing, however, the picture lacks that thrill of intimate contact which-insured the success of its real-life predecessor and substitutes a series of Acts, some good, some bad, with just the feeblest at tempt at a unifying theme...