Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room of his Rome apartment. Born near Pisa in modest circumstances, he worked his way through college, was an early leader of the Catholic workers' movement, was decorated for gallantry three times in World War I. A founding member of Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party, predecessor of the Christian Democrats, Gronchi served briefly in Mussolini's first government in 1922, but rapidly soured on II Duce and was forced out of public life by Mussolini's displeasure. A leader of Italy's underground in World War II, he served as Minister of Industry...
Charles Harte's We the Tribe, the other new play on yesterday's program, was not so fortunate as its predecessor. A farce involving savages and an American missionary party, it meandered all the way from rough sex jokes to a serious indictment of Christianity, but stayed nowhere long enough to make a clear point for either comedy or paganism...
...tumbled off the lists of top 20 shows. Godfrey's remedy: "a new show," possibly a bigger Talent Scouts, with the accent on eager new faces. "What's all the excitement about?" Godfrey grumped. "Both NBC and CBS once fired me the same way." Like their predecessor-in-exile. Singer Julius La Rosa (TIME, Nov. 2, 1953), Godfrey's ex-friends soon discovered that they had been hit with a golden ax. Flame-haired Songstress Marion Marlowe drew a fast $36,000 bid from Ed (Toast of the Town) Sullivan, also of CBS, who is always eager...
Bartenders hailed the prospective law as much fairer than its predecessor. But one, declaring it would not have much effect on underage purchasing, said, "I don't think it will stop them from drinking. They'll break this law, just like they broke the old one. They'll break it all to hell...
...avoid the fate that met its predecessor any discussion group at Harvard must have outside speakers as well as discussion. It also needs the organization that the Athenaeum lacked. To get both it would need the support of Harvard's currently existing political clubs...