Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic politicos were courting the Army Air Forces' four-star General Carl A. Spaatz as assiduously as fraternity seniors rushing a football star. Ruddy, square-cut "Tooey" Spaatz looked like a dream candidate for governor. The General, well aware of Washington forecasts that he will be appointed to succeed General Henry H. Arnold as commander of the air forces, wouldn't say yes and wouldn't say no. But he was betraying a certain quiet fascination with the idea of being governor of his old home state. The Democrats badly needed a candidate like Spaatz...
Tall, auburn-haired Dorothy Shaver began her career with rag dolls. Last week, from her $75,000-a-year job, she went to greater riches. She was elected the first woman president of Fifth Avenue's smart Lord & Taylor, to succeed Walter Hoving, president...
...command with the air weapon he had done so much to forge. But the Japs surrendered before he could strike a blow. Last week to Birdman Towers came as much recognition and vindication as he could now expect; with an admiral's four stars, he was named to succeed Spruance as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas. Naval aviators, already winning key posts in Washington (TIME, Dec. 10), were at last, if tardily, getting some of the top sea commands. Raymond Spruance headed ashore to run the Naval War College...
When Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, named him Premier to succeed Ferrucio Parri, De Gasperi was ill with influenza. At first, propped up in bed, sneezing and rheumy-eyed, he haggled with fellow politicians. Then, pale and weak, he left his bedchamber for day-&-night sessions in the Chigi Palace. Punctually at 7 each morning a neighbor's phonograph woke...
...third transfusion was to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. As its head, the President named another onetime Missourian-Maple T. Harl, 52, now a Denver banker. Both he and Martin succeed Leo T. Crowley, who was head of both institutions until he resigned to return to private business...