Word: succeeded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even if McClellan should not succeed, there is a third force which must be brought to bear on Hoffa and his colleagues if he is to be ousted. This force must come from within--from the teamsters themselves. Some already oppose him, as has been evidenced by the attempts of thirteen teamsters to invalidate the election...
...first King to rule Norway as an independent monarch since the 14th century, Haakon (rhymes roughly with token) began life as Prince Carl, second son of the ruling house of Denmark, with little hope and even less desire of becoming a ruler. His elder brother Christian was destined to succeed his father on the Danish throne. In a desperate motherly effort to secure a like position for Carl, Denmark's Queen Louise did her best to promote a marriage between him and The Netherlands' young Queen Wilhelmina. Carl would have none of it. Smitten with Britain...
...market between the two countries. A practical basis for the reciprocal market already exists: Brazil buys Chile's nitrates and Chile needs Brazil's coffee and cocoa. The committee starts work in 60 days on a draft treaty. Said Chile's President Carlos Ibanez: "If we succeed, your visit will be a landmark for a new economic organization for all the countries of Latin America...
Where Will It End? The recommendation on adult (over 21) homosexuality touched off the most violent reaction. "Bad, retrograde and utterly to be condemned," snapped Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. "Freeing adult males from any penalties could only succeed in intensifying and multiplying this form of depravity." Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail agreed: "Great nations have fallen and empires decayed because corruption became socially acceptable. [The proposals constitute] legalized degradation." "There's no knowing where it will end," complained a woman M.P., Mrs. Jean Mann, on television. "We may even have husbands enticed away from wives...
Liberal Party custom dictates that a Protestant English Canadian and a Roman Catholic French Canadian alternate the party's leadership. The only Protestant of English ancestry prominent enough to succeed Louis St. Laurent is Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, boyish, bow-tied, onetime (1945) Ambassador to the U.S. and External Affairs chief throughout the St. Laurent regime. In that office he gave Canada (pop. 16.5 million) a great say in Western affairs; e.g., the U.N.'s Middle East police force was a result of a Pearson resolution. His only serious political trouble occurred at home, when...