Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...senate's attempt to nail Governor Griffin, who once ruled both houses of the legislature with little trouble, signaled that Griffin has run head on into Georgia Kingmaker Herman Talmadge, his predecessor as governor and now Georgia's junior U.S. Senator. Under Georgia law, Griffin may not run again at term's end. Talmadge and his U.S. Senate colleague, Richard Russell, want Lieut. Governor Ernest Vandiver for Georgia's next governor. Griffin is backing former State Highway Board Chairman Roger H. Lawson, presumably because Lawson would turn the governor's chair back to Griffin...
...what he calls "bridges of trust" between his administration and the Greek and Turkish inhabitants of the island. Five days before Christmas, he set off celebrations in Nicosia by releasing from detention camps 89 men and 11 women accused of supporting EOKA, the Greek-Cypriot rebel force. Where his predecessor, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, commonly moved about in a heavily escorted bulletproof car. Sir Hugh toured the island's villages on horseback, stopping off in coffee houses for chats with amazed farmers...
EXPENDITURES. McElroy's predecessor, Charlie Wilson, let costs get so far out of hand that he was forced to call an abrupt halt to military procurement before the end of fiscal 1957. He also had to reduce procurement programs for 1958 to an extent that caused havoc in the airframe industry. McElroy will probably have about $2 billion more than Wilson to spend, will have that much bigger a problem in trying to control the spending...
Said Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson in an unmistakable turnabout from his predecessor George Humphrey: "Maintaining a balanced budget is of great importance to our national welfare and so also is keeping our expenditures within reasonable and prudent limits. But we cannot adhere to absolute rigidity . . . And I want to make it quite clear that we at the Treasury are never going to take any positions which are inimical to the defense of our country...
...Latter-Day Roman. As SACEUR, Norstad is a great contrast to his tireless, hard-driving predecessor. "When General Gruenther wanted to know how many seats there were in an auditorium, everybody trembled; now we just tremble when there is something worth trembling about." The modesty that was one of Norstad's "faults" at West Point is still with him. When he was first elevated to SACEUR, he tried to continue his old practice of slipping into SHAPE unobtrusively by a side door, abandoned it only after his public information officer firmly told him that he must use the front...