Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than a month, the national convention of the Liberal Party would meet -to pick a party leader to succeed retiring Mackenzie King. Hats began to go into the ring. Short, scrappy Agriculture Minister James Gardiner last week announced: "I have agreed that those who think I would make a suitable leader for the party might place my name in nomination...
...city; it peered and pried everywhere, and its somewhat watery gaze was often unflattering. Good-looking women turned into witches and dapper men became unshaven bums. Under TV's merciless, close-up stare, the demagogues and players-to-the-gallery did not always succeed in looking like statesmen. Besides exposing the politicians' worst facial expressions, the camera caught occasional telltale traces of boredom, insincerity and petulance...
...post. His withdrawal was one more illustration of the general departure of the European master from Asia. Not only in India, but in every country in Asia, men were trying to fill the vacuum of power created by that departure. Communists believed that they, above all others, would succeed...
Last week the strategic, oil-rich realm of the Shah of Shahs, 29-year-old Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, had no government. The cabinet of deaf* old Ibrahim Hakimi had fallen two weeks before. Abdul Hussein Hajir (who has one glass eye) was named to succeed him. But last week a Teheran mob kept the Majlis from meeting to approve Hajir's cabinet. Said one English-speaking Persian politician: "There's an old proverb that 'a year can be judged by its spring.' Well, it looks as though there's going to be an early fall...
Last week, at Indiana's Republican convention in Indianapolis, Bill Jenner had his showdown. To head him off, Governor Gates (who could not legally succeed himself), had lined up three candidates. On the first ballot, Jenner ran far ahead. On the second, Governor Gates ordered the other three to pool their strength. Jenner wound up well behind Nominee Hobart Creighton, hefty Speaker of Indiana's House, famed among farmers as the biggest chicken & egg breeder in the U.S. (TIME...