Word: predecessors
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Since its face value is nil, and its implied usefulness is negative, the proposal should be sent the way of its predecessor. Those people who militate for curtailment of the Executive's power to conduct foreign relations must not be allowed to sow their seeds under the guise of a general and deceptively innocent constitutional amendment...
...year-old paintmaking firm of Devoe & Raynolds, one of Financier Louis Wolfson's holdings. A mining engineer, born and educated in Alabama, McFarlin managed coal mines in Tennessee, became president of Tennessee Products & Chemical Corp., which merged with Wolfson's Merritt-Chapman & Scott. His predecessor, E. W. Endter. who got the job after resigning the $50,000-a-year presidency of the California Oil Co. to help Wolfson battle for Montgomery Ward, quit Devoe & Raynolds to return to the oil business...
Orcutt added that the machine will supplement the Mark IV computer, presently being used at the University, since the "704" will be capable of far more extensive calculations than its predecessor...
Swelling Murmurs. Such talk fell like sparks on the tinder-dry tempers of Algeria's million French colons, who want no political equality with Arabs who outnumber them eight to one. For a year they had cold-shouldered Catroux's predecessor, Governor General Jacques Soustelle. But now, by comparison, Soustelle seemed a hero. Some 50,000 Europeans jammed the streets of Algiers to give him and Mme. Soustelle a bewilderingly touching sendoff. The colons were equally noisy in proclaiming their refusal to be governed by General Catroux...
...14th floor of Detroit's General Motors Building. As he scans the reports from G.M.'s earth-girdling ventures in autos, Frigidaires, diesel locomotives, radios and earthmovers, he becomes again the eagle-sharp comptroller who can tell from figures how men and machines are doing. His predecessor, rumpled Engineer Charlie Wilson, used to gab cheerfully with friends, and occasionally gave friendly advice to some of his lesser competitors, such as Nash and Kaiser. Curtice rarely finds time for such activity, a fact that has not endeared him to his fellow corporation executives outside of G.M. For example, Curtice...