Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a short time before, Eisenhower had given his blessing to the selection of Sen. Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky to succeed Meade Alcorn as Republican National Committee Chairman. Tradition assures Morton of the job. He is regarded as a supporter of vice-President Nixon...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's decision to run for the Presidency of West Germany has added one more worry to the West's preparations for negotiations on Berlin. Now that Adenauer has decided not to succeed himself, and Dulles' illness has diminished his political influence, Western policy is left without the certainty of firm and vigorous leadership. Both Dulles and Adenauer will have an influence on negotiations, to be sure, but the decisions as to how the West should make its case, what it should demand and where it should yield, have not been made as yet. It is clear that...
...prickings of conscience have finally moved the Legislature to consider the case," Schlesinger said. He expressed hope that the Legislature will establish a committee of legal experts to study the problem. "We might succeed after four or five tries," he added...
...Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, 59, has a soldier's talents for open warfare, but like few he has a diplomat's deft touch for the quiet, unsung victory. Last week President Eisenhower, no mean soldier-diplomat himself, picked General Lemnitzer as the next Army Chief of Staff, to succeed retiring General Maxwell Taylor, 57, next July 1. Lemnitzer was the only new man on the President's list of appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Air Force's General Nathan Farragut Twining, 61, was reappointed chairman; Chief of Naval...
...Haakon) I. (for Ingolf) Romnes, 52, was elected president of Western Electric Co., manufacturing arm of A. T. & T., to succeed the late Arthur B. Goetze. Son of a Norwegian immigrant baker, Romnes went to work for the Bell System installing telephones during his senior year at the University of Wiscon sin, joined A. T. & T. when he graduated in 1928. Romnes became A. T. & T. chief of engineering in 1952, a vice president...