Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theoretically, the new chairman will have no more control over Brooks House than did his predecessor, Dean Willard V. Sperry. During the past few years, however, Sperry, tied up with a shaky Divinity School, has not closely supervised PBH activities...
Carnevali was the man most wanted by Pedro Estrada, the government's burly police boss. Since Estrada's cops killed Carnevali's predecessor, Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, on the streets of Caracas last October (TIME, Nov. 3), Carnevali has been the underground leader of Acción Democrática, the outlawed majority party. A governor and congressman in Acción Democrática's regime, Carnevali was jailed for ten months when the army took over in 1948, then exiled. He studied at Columbia University in Manhattan, later slipped back to Venezuela. Arrested again...
Lowell wasted no time in remedying what he considered the major errors in his predecessor's policy. The system of Concentration and Distribution was framed 9in 1910 and went into effect for the class of 1914. This system required every undergraduate to concentrate at least six of his 16 elective courses in one division or recognized field for distinction, and to distribute at least six of his other courses among the three general groups outside of his concentration. For the purpose of distribution four groups were created...
...union representative, plugged the Good Neighbor line in Latin America, sat in the U.N.'s International Labor Organization. He became Murray's hand-picked heir apparent. In Murray's shoes he seems likely to follow the conservative but militant trade unionism of his able predecessor...
...boat; if you make a decision and it happens to be a mistake, you'll be put on the next boat, but somebody'll be there to see you off." Templer began touring the country in an armored car-instead of the Rolls-Royce used by his predecessor. At one stop Templer listened for the second time to a planter angrily complain about inadequate police and army protection...