Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shin a story in the Feb. 22 issue you say that Alabama's Governor George C. Wallace denounced the lavish spending of his predecessor, John Patterson. During my interview with him, Governor Wallace did condemn lavish spending in strong terms, saying "It's criminal, it's a shame, it's a sin." But he was careful to avoid any specific reference by name to any of his predecessors...
Pont will have a tough time trying to match his predecessor's Yalie units. Olivar led the Bulldog varsity for 11 years--longer than any other coach in Yale history. Over that span he won more football games (61) than any New Haven coach since the days of Walter Camp who produced 67 victories for the Blue...
Seated last week beneath the huge chandelier in his paneled office, Alabama's Governor George C. Wallace gulped Coke and denounced the lavish spending of his predecessor, John Patterson. Growled Wallace: "It's criminal, it's a shame...
Whatmough, who is 65, has been head of the Department since it was created in 1951. A firm believer in rigorous, "scientific" linguistics, he built up the Department from its predecessor, the loosely organized department of Comparative Philology...
...disappeared entirely in the 1959 merger of its parent, J. P. Morgan & Co., with New-York's Guaranty Trust. The new firm, organized by a Morgan Guaranty overseas subsidiary in alliance with London's Morgan Grenfell and two Dutch investment banking houses, occupies the same quarters its predecessor did but will carry out quite different functions. Henceforth, Morgan & Cie. will concentrate less on millionaires, more on European subsidiaries of U.S. companies. The bank plans to help them list shares on European exchanges and find loan capital in Continental markets. By these services and by drawing French capital into...