Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hughes Aircraft about the time the others did in 1953, joined Litton as director of military relations. He charges that he helped the group buy the firm's small predecessor company from Charles Litton, and that an agreement was made to split the founders' stock into five parts-two for Thornton and one each for Jamieson, Ash and Steele. As it turned out, Thornton got at least 144,000 shares, Steele only 10,000. According to Litton's lawyers, Steele was fired in 1959 after telling Tex Thornton that he planned to sue for a bigger share...
...become too easy to take Lyndon Johnson for granted and to see him only as the other candidate in a "squash Goldwater" election. It has become too easy to forget his role in reviving the nation's self-confidence and overcoming the Congressional balkiness which plagued his predecessor for two and a half years, to forget the relief we felt in the dusk of last November when the first Southern President in a century pledged a continuation of the Kennedy program, emphasizing his commitment to civil rights...
...claiming credit for achievements, President Johnson describes both his regime and that of his predecessor as "this Administration." So do Republicans in assessing blame...
Debate on this issue is crucial, because Romney's list of accomplishments is astonishingly small. Romney could persuade the heavily Republican legislature to fulfill few of the campaign promises made in 1962. Romney was even less successful than his Democratic predecessor in his efforts to enact a badly needed tax reform. governor John Swainson's bill made it to the floor of the State Senate and almost passed, while Romney's bill died in committee...
...MOTHER'S KISSES, by Bruce Jay Friedman. The author of the widely praised Stern faced even worse problems than most second novelists in confronting Tils cult. But Kisses is as funny as its predecessor on the same subject: a man dominated by a driving mother...