Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advantages of diversification, Saunders always looked upon consolidation with the New York Central as his most important project. The two lines were in the process of beating each other into bankruptcy. As early as 1957, merger talks had started between Saunders' Pennsy predecessor, James M. Symes, and the Central's Robert Young. Then, after Young committed suicide in 1959, he was succeeded at the Central by Perlman, an M.I.T. graduate who was with the Denver & Rio Grande before Young brought him back East. As it happened, Perlman was most reluctant to couple with the Pennsy, and Saunders...
Asked if any were "specifically included by explicit invitations," Fox said that he writes to some graduate schools to remind them to recruit at Harvard, but does not explicitly invite military or industrial recruiters. He said that his predecessor had invited military recruiters, "probably without realizing what he was doing...
Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, removed last week as city manager, sent the council a statement in which he branded his dismissal "arbitrary and illegal." He urged the council to consult with the city solicitor (who was selected by DeGuglielmo's predecessor) as to the measure's legality. He did not, however, say whether he would go to court to fight his removal...
Hayes refered to "one councillor" who had been a "virtual dictator" of Cambridge during the term of DeGuglielmo's predecessor, former City Manager John J. Curry '19. Charging the unnamed councillor with "fronting" for a construction firm, Hayes claimed that he had evidence with which to begin legal proceedings...
...Scala Opera; of heart disease; in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy. Conducting, he once growled, "is a beastly profession." But no one approached the podium with more single-mindedness than this long-armed maestro who treated orchestras to operatic rages and audiences to athletic conducting, ever disdaining-like his predecessor, Toscanini -the use of a score...