Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More convivial than his predecessor, enormously popular with his staff, new President Trammell is no front-office window dressing. Rated a supersalesman in Chicago, he distinguished himself there by boosting NBC billings to over a million a month, just twelve times as much as the New York headmen expected him to get when they sent him west in 1928. Big feather in Trammell's Chicago cap was a "million-dollar" contract he wangled with Pepsodent, which transformed Amos 'n' Andy from a sustaining show into a national institution in 1929. A great one for soap operas...
...Syria, reputedly at the behest of his predecessor, General Maxime Weygand, Commander in Chief Eugene Mittelhausser of France's Army of the Near East likewise first denounced, then honored the Petain armistices. This announcement affected the actions of a dozen French warships, including at least three battleships still with the British at Alexandria. The attitudes of the commanders of these French ships remained unknown, but farther east, French surrender of Djibouti to the Italians gravely endangered British control of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, far gate...
...Sabotino from the Austrians in 1916 led to the victory at Gorizia and won Colonel Badoglio his generalship. His Second Army was the one which cracked worst at Caporetto but this is excused by his admirers on the ground that he took over the command from a sick predecessor on a few days' notice, that the Austrian surprise attack centred on him. He helped General Armado Diaz and the Allied rescue staff (including France's Weygand) reorganize the Army on the Piave, and planned the final push at Vittorio Veneto in October 1918 which knocked Austria...
Bulky, balding Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre continued in the editor's chair of Osservatore Romano, was still flanked by bodyguards wherever he went. Within the Vatican, friends of the Allies grumbled that Pius XII's predecessor would not have let his newspaper be gagged. But the story went around that Pius XII had stiffened when Professor Guido Gonella, pro-Ally commentator for Osservatore, disappeared for two days. The Holy Father threatened a broadcast to the world. Professor Gonella reappeared...
...under a new leader French Armies regrouped themselves along the Somme. Maurice Gustave Gamelin, once acknowledged "the world's foremost soldier," had seen his theories of stand-and-take-it warfare ground beneath the tread of German tanks and blasted into extinction by Nazi dive-bombers. While his predecessor and successor Maxime Weygand sweated under the gigantic task of constructing a new front, the morbidly curious speculated on the fate of the former generalissimo...