Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expects Charles Melvin Price to make waves as chairman of the Armed Services Committee. He is a party stalwart, almost unknown outside the House, the defense world and his downstate Illinois district. Notably, he lacks the arrogance of his predecessor, F. Edward Hébert, and any instinct for newspaper headlines...
...Internal Security Committee and its predecessor lived in shame and died in shame; it is good to see it dead and buried...
...Which president analyzed his predecessor: "Hoover had the misfortune to hold office at the wrong time...
...House. In the beginning there was virtual anarchy. Ford did not rule, and neither did anybody else. White House staffers wandered into the Oval Office pretty much as they pleased and so did innumerable outsiders paying courtesy calls. The President was determined not to repeat the mistake of his predecessor and isolate himself from the outside world. He gave a warm welcome to practically anybody and ushered in a short-lived era of good feelings...
...DOUGLAS DILLON, 65, Secretary of the Treasury from 1961 to 1965 and now an investment banker on Wall Street. A friend of Rockefeller's from school days, he took part in forming the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the CIA) during World War II. As Under Secretary of State, he helped concoct the false cover story that Francis Gary Powers' U-2 reconnaissance plane was merely on a weather-scouting flight when shot down by the Soviets...