Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Subversive Activities Control Board; New York's Len Hall is chairman of the G.O.P. National Committee; New York's James Mead is on the Federal Trade Commission. Still others hold important Government jobs outside Washington; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. is U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (his, predecessor, ex-Senator Warren Austin, is living in retirement at his Vermont home); Clare Boothe Luce is Ambassador to Italy...
...sudden death of the president of the Treadway Furniture Corporation and the subsequent maneuverings as the seven-man board of control tries to name a successor. The situation is a patently false one, since for some obscure reasons the next president must be named within a day of his predecessor's death...
...Burr's Corporation predecessor, attended Corporation meetings with three presidents--A. Lawrence Lowell, James B. Conant, and Nathan M. Pusey, and was the group's senior member at the time of his retirement. A former Oliver Henry Professor of Hygiene, Lee has practiced medicine in Boston for over 40 years. He was 73 at the time of his retirement...
This year's organization, like its predecessor, maintains a policy that its members must be, or intend to be, conscientious objectors to military service. But some of the members object to fighting on moral, rather than religious, grounds and have thus been in trouble with their selective service boards. Local draft boards may classify men "I.O." only if they have religious basis for objection...
Also at stake will be the ambition of Pennsylvania coach Joe Burk to beat his predecessor, Navy coach Rusty Callow who was the Red and Blue varsity coach before he moved to Annapolis and launched his fabulous middies on their world-beating career...