Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certain lords of the canned comment have demurred to this: they accept the explanation but' hold Truman and his predecessor responsible for the climate of opinion. They have developed a Pied Piper theory of presidential leadership, with a main thesis that a pair of malicious individuals single-handedly bent all of society to their purposes. This is surely fatuous. Roosevelt and Truman may well have been at fault, when viewed with the aid of hindsight, for not restraining the high vintage liberalism of their twenty years in office more efficiently, but no one man can create such a spirit...
Contrary to widespread fable, the Taft-Hartley Act was drafted to protect labor as well as to correct some of the abuses unions were permitted under the Wagner act. In one respect, however, the laws makes the same omission in protection as its predecessor: it contains no effective provision to deal with an employer who breaks the law while fighting attempts of a union to organize his factory. Since an unfair practices suit requires at least a year to settle, an obstructionist employer can easily stave off union organization with delays. Even should the union ultimately win its suit against...
...water and of words, Balboa was not able to stave off a rival conquistador named Pedro Arias Dávila. Pedrarias, as he was better known, displaced him as governor of Darién, and despite all Balboa's diplomacy (including marriage with Pedrarias' daughter), had his predecessor's head chopped off and stuck on a pole in the village square...
When Pedrarias killed Balboa, he also doomed Darién. Pedrarias was not anxious to have the settlement endure as a monument to his predecessor, and the Indians, provoked to enmity by the new regime's cruelty, made life difficult for the Spaniards. In 1524, Santa Maria del Antigua was abandoned, and today the jungle covers Darién much as it did "four and a half centuries ago, when a few hundred adventurous men from Castile took a corner of it to build a town and shape their arrogant dreams of subjugating half a world...
Carr's four passes were good for 363 yards, a new one-game Ivy passing mark, breaking the old record of 322, set last year by Carr's predecessor, Mitch Price. The total gave him a total offense figure of 882 yards and put him in front of Princeton wingback Royce Flippin, who has collected...