Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower called him to the White House to announce his reappointment as chairman in March 1955. At the same time, Ike confided, he intended to announce that Martin would also be named to a full 14-year term as a member of the FR Board of Governors when his predecessor's term expired in another nine months. But Martin persuaded Eisenhower to postpone the advance nomination. "Mr. President," he smiled, "by next January we might have a big depression. You would be very embarrassed to have a commitment to name me to a 14-year term." Said...
...innocuous Indonesian proposal for a closing communique, thus managing to alienate even his associates in opposition. Conceivably some of Shepilov's tactics were the result of diplomatic inexperience, and they hurt him with fellow diplomats who found him, at least as a table companion, infinitely preferable to his predecessor, "Stony Bottom" Molotov. Shepilov displayed a greater Soviet interest in exploiting the naked political possibilities of trouble than in solving the problem that had brought them together. His ambition seemed to be to make it hard for Nasser to negotiate on the majority plan...
...monotheistic faith: sun worship. A famed bas-relief shows Akhenaten, Nefertete and a daughter sacrificing to the sun god (see cut). Unfortunately, soon after Akhenaten's death around 1350 B.C., the priest-ridden, sybaritic Tutankhamen (the famed "King Tut" of the 1920s) rang down the curtain on his predecessor's splendid experiment...
Burney's predecessor, who was involved in last year's troubles over polio-vaccine distribution, resigned (with a disability pension) to take a $60,000-a-year job. By a recent act of Congress, the new Surgeon General receives $22,626 annually-$5,826 more than Dr. Scheele...
...nine years ago as vice president. A World War II colonel, he served on General Eisenhower's staff from D-day in Normandy to V-E day. ¶ Lewis Gruber, 60, was named the fourth president in four years for P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent). His predecessor, William J. Halley, 58, moved down to head the finance committee. A native New Yorker, Gruber got a law degree from Tennessee's Cumberland University ('14), joined Lorillard in 1922 as a salesman. The executive shakeup. which also brought in a new advertising director, gives more company control...