Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find a properly mixed Martini). He likes to take his friends on cocktail-picnic parties. In short, he has unusual social adaptability joined to his forthright military drive. With modesty and patience, he has survived a difficult, frustrated tour as commander of the Caribbean Air Forces under his predecessor in the top command, Lieut. General Daniel Van Voorhis. Last week General Van Voorhis was ordered to duty as commander of the Fifth Corps Area. Essentially, Corps Area command is a military housekeeping job. General Van Voorhis should do very well...
...late (Episcopal) Bishop Mosher of the Philippines once warned a visiting colleague: "I don't mind so much your confirming the ones I've confirmed, but try not to repeat on the ones both Brent (his predecessor) and I have done...
...francs on the city. It only increased the Burgomaster's popularity. François van de Meulebroeck is 64. The Nazis decreed that no burgomaster could be more than 60, arrested him. They tore down posters of his proclamation of protest. In the spirit of his predecessor, the Bruxellois pasted them up again. Last week the two Belgian fliers who escaped to England (see p. 17) brought a copy of the proclamation with them...
...almost to vanish. But General Aniline's outward characteristics remained not Swiss but German. Its president, Dietrich A. Schmitz, is a brother of the chairman of the board of I. G. Farben, Hermann Schmitz. Walter H. vom Rath, Aniline's secretary, is the son of a Schmitz predecessor as chairman of the Farben. General Aniline had some distinguished American directors when the Germans set it up in '27. But Walter Clark Teagle, chairman of Standard Oil of N.J. (with which the Farben used to share patents) resigned from the Aniline board last year, and Edgar M. Clark...
Although he lacks the fire of his predecessor Kamâl Atatürk, he has captured the loyalty and devotion of all Turks...