Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...views on another matter-the health of the U.S. economy-Hoover disclosed that economic crystal gazing is no longer for him: "I'm through with that sort of thing. I'm busy writing books." Current project: a volume on his friend and World War I White House predecessor, Woodrow Wilson...
Edward Weeks, 59, a slim, hawk-nosed New Jerseyite of good schooling (Cornell, Harvard, Cambridge) and filigree style, has been the Atlantic's editor for 19 years, longer than all but his immediate predecessor, the celebrated Ellery Sedgwick. Weeks's Atlantic has had to endure the penalties of lasting into a time when new forms of journalism and communication offer new competition to the printed word as well as many other ways for writers and thinkers to express themselves. But the privately owned monthly (major shareholder: Mrs. Marion D. Strachan of Groton, Mass.) has prospered, increased advertising revenue...
...speed, too, is different. "II" moves at 17,840 m.p.h. compared to 18,000 m.p.h. for the original. Muttnik, which has a longer orbit, consequently takes 103.7 minutes to circle the globe, compared to 96.2 minutes for its predecessor. The most impressive difference, though, is in weight: 184 pounds...
...second major issue in the campaign has been state expenditure and taxes. Forbes has attacked Meyner as the "spendingest" governor in New Jersey history (his budgets have totalled $292 million more than those of his predecessor, Republican Alfred E. Driscoll). Actually, the issue is not at all clear-cut, for Forbes has also said that he would not reduce the budget, but would simply redirect it into different, and supposedly more fruitful, channels...
...paper since 1946, and is a onetime president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He was elected by the A.P.'s 24-man board of directors to succeed the Philadelphia Bulletin's President-Publisher Robert McLean, 66, who resigned after 19 years. McLean's predecessor: the late Star Publisher Frank B. Noyes, who as president of the A.P. from its reorganization in 1900 until 1938 helped build it into the world's biggest wire service...