Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether Under Secretary Christian Herter would succeed Dulles, the President, patently still shaken by the news from Washington, said confusingly that "no final decision" had been made, that "there are a number of people . . . who have particular talent in this field, and there are all kinds of considerations to be studied...
...society but was founded with a mission to help build a world where liberty and justice would prevail." So saying, Dulles, gravely ill of cancer, resigned as Secretary of State. Replied Dwight Eisenhower: "You have set a record that stands clear and strong for all to see." Appointed to succeed Dulles in as critical time as ever faced a nation in a role of leadership: Christian Archibald Herter, 64, longtime student of foreign affairs, onetime Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts and for two years Under Secretary to Dulles...
...Often a student will get the idea he was accepted solely because of athletic ability, and feel an obligation to sacrifice other college values to "paying back" his sponsors on the athletic field. Thus the Admissions Committee must be very careful to choose athletes who they are sure will succeed academically, not those that can merely...
...their frequent irritation at Supreme Court decisions, some Senators cannot resist the temptation to make court appointees squirm. Last week Cincinnati's Potter Stewart, 44, youngest justice in 20 years, got the special treatment when the Judiciary Committee took up his interim appointment (to succeed ailing Justice Harold Burton, TIME...
...President in the whitebrick, four-pillared Mamie's Cabin near Augusta's tenth fairway. Over lunch the group got down to business. Connecticut's Meade Alcorn was retiring as national chairman (TIME, April 13), Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton had been mentioned to succeed him. Was the President agreeable? Ike. who had hand-picked Morton five weeks earlier, went along with custom, announced that he would be very pleased indeed. Added he in an uncustomary tribute to Meade Alcorn: "I sure did like that guy, and it made me so mad tohave to lose...