Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camp to the British High Commissioner in Aden, recently turned up as an unofficial military adviser in the royalist mountains. Asked in Parliament who authorized Boyle's involvement in Yemen, Britain's Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home insisted that "both the present High Commissioner and his predecessor have assured my right honorable friend that they were not aware the person in question was involved in any way." It was hardly a blanket denial of British participation...
...shed the foreign minister's portfolio, naming ex-Railways Minister Swaran Singh to handle India's relations abroad. It was a task that Jawaharlal Nehru himself used to carry, but there was no need for Shastri to kill himself merely in order to emulate his indefatigable predecessor. "It is not necessary," wrote a columnist in Bombay's influential Economic Weekly, "for Shastri to be Foreign Minister, Minister for Atomic Energy and Chairman of the Planning Commission-or, for that matter, president of the Mountaineering Institute. He has enough to do as Prime Minister...
...President Raúl Leoni, "though descended from Corsicans, strikes no Napoleonic attitudes." Leoni never thumps his desk; he does not ride out on crusades, and when he speaks, his raspy baritone has all the oratorical appeal of a buzz saw. In short, he is the opposite of his predecessor, Rómulo Betancourt. Yet Leoni has not only filled Betancourt's sizable shoes. In some ways, he may even be the better man for Venezuela these days...
...party organizer, he beefed up Republican strength in the South and he gets some of the credit for recent Republican comebacks in such cities as Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago. Says his predecessor as National Committee chairman, Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton: "He's done an effective job, and he's done it on skin and bones. He's liquidated the party's debt. and he's run the committee well on K rations...
...developed within 24 hours of the Kennedy assassination, when the matter of finishing up the fiscal 1965 budget was pressing. Johnson later remarked that he and Gordon spent "37 days and nights' work" wrapping up the $98 billion budget. Gordon, by nature a more tightfisted director than his predecessor, David Bell, had no trouble executing the slashes Johnson wanted and has been steadily cutting back ever since. Working for a President obviously fascinated by the political potential of budgeteering, he is being asked to perform tasks not ordinarily given a Budget Director...