Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talking. The general thought that U.S. troops should be pulled out of Japan the moment Japan becomes ready to defend itself; he did not think that the Soviet Union would invade Japan unless it could first convert it to Communism; he was quite sure that Japan would succeed in rebuilding its economy because it would never develop "the philosophy that dominates the thinking of so many white people-to do as little as possible...
...will succeed retiring President Lingan A. Warren, 66, as chief executive officer...
...James Francis Burke, 53, a shipping clerk for Fanny Farmer Candy Shops in 1923, was elected president last week to succeed Co-Founder John D. Hayes, 71, who will remain as chairman. Burke plans few changes in the Fanny Farmer team he has helped build since he became vice president and assistant to the president...
...succeed Republican Howrey as chairman, the White House picked FTCommissioner J. W. Gwynne, 65, who, like Howrey, grew up in Waterloo, Iowa and was appointed to the agency in 1953. A conservative, hard-plugging lawyer and onetime judge who represented Iowa's Third District in Congress for 14 years (until 1948), Republican Gwynne worked closely with Howrey, is expected to keep FTC on its present course...
...last January. Next month there will be another new face on the FTC: Democrat William C. Kern, 52-year-old Indianapolis lawyer and son of the late Senator John W. Kern, Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1908). Kern, now assistant director of FTC's Bureau of Litigation, will succeed 69-year-old Commissioner James Mead, former New York Senator, whose six-year term is expiring...