Word: succeeders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Encouraging Setback. The federation scheme is anathema to French right-wingers, but it has long been accepted in principle by some French moderates, and in Paris last week it was the moderates who were gaining ground. Waspish Georges Bidault, the first aspirant to succeed fallen Premier Felix Gaillard (TIME, April 28), could not even persuade his own Popular Republican Party to support him in forming a government; in fact, only one of the party's 75 members in the Assembly had joined him in voting to bring down Gaillard. Having given Bidault and his policy of even harsher prosecution...
...elected president of General Electric Co., biggest electrical manufacturer in the world (1957 sales: $4,335,664,061). Paxton, a Scottish-born, U.S.-educated (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1923) engineer, moved up as President Ralph J. Cordiner, who will continue as chief executive officer, was elected board chairman to succeed Philip D. Reed, who retired...
Northerners must not allow the South to succeed in absolving the guilt of 75 years through "its vicious, dirty, lying campaign" of propaganda, Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told an informal audience last night in the Littauer Lounge...
...religion is to be taught constructively," Tillich stated, "the faculty must be unified." He also said that this united basis could succeed only if free criticism was allowed...
...chair, sloshed his four-in-hand in the mushroom soup, stood up, dripped more soup down his shirt front. Mother Williams rushed for cleaning gear, allowed the rolls to burn in the confusion, choking the guests with kitchen smoke. But the evening was not lost. Commented Nancy: "It did succeed in breaking the ice with guests, though, and shortly all formality was forgotten...