Word: predecessors
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...Blake's religious life at Princeton also had its traumatic side. Before Blake arrived in 1924, Frank Buchman-patriarch, prophet and founder (in 1938) of Moral Re-Armament-had swooped down on Princeton with what was later to be known as the Oxford Group, M.R.A.'s predecessor. Blake found the college seething with eager young men taking their friends to weekend "house-parties" to change their lives by "God-guidance" salted with public confession of teen-age sins...
According to Councilor Pearl K. Wise, the new, somewhat stiffer parking ordinance represents "a happy compromise" between its predecessor and a more severe fine schedule, proposed in April, which died in the committee on ordinances. Voting against the new law were Councilors Thomas M. McNamara, Walter J. Sullivan, and Alfred E. Velucci...
...time when the 1956 Canal crisis was making headlines every week. What is more, said Hagerty, reporters are wrong in thinking that the conference belongs to them: "It belongs to the President. He can hold it in Madison Square Garden or a telephone booth." Added Pierre Salinger's predecessor: "Freedom of the press is a two-way street. I wish the American press had a little more responsibility to the American Government. All too often, our country is wrong unless proven right...
...sitting or standing, Jean Kerr has gotten more material out of her family than anyone since Clarence Day. Her most recent collection of casual pieces, The Snake Has All the Lines, has been on every bestseller list and in nearly every hospital room in the country. Its phenomenally successful predecessor, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, has sold nearly 275,000 hard-cover copies. All of which has made Jean Kerr even more famous than her children, the five sons who apparently play she-loves-me-she-loves-me-not with their teeth. She has achieved the life a great...
Compounding the problem, says Baptist Duncan, is the fact that congressional chaplains have no fixed term, and some have stayed on interminably. Duncan's solution: Congress should choose each new chaplain from a denomination different from his predecessor for a fixed, brief term. Neither of the present chaplains sides with Duncan. Chaplain Harris says that "denomination has nothing whatsoever to do with it. This isn't recognition of the church in any sense of the word. It is a recognition of religion...