Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department let it be known that Ambassador John Moore Allison would soon be transferred from crisis-tangled Indonesia to the U.S. embassy in Prague. Official version: the U.S. needs an able, realistic man in Communist Czechoslovakia to succeed able, realistic U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson, who has met Red China negotiators in 73 face-to-face sessions, will now move on to Thailand. Washington scuttlebutt: John Allison, 52, seasoned Far East hand and strong antiCommunist, offended Indonesia's sensitive nationalists, came under false but telling attack in Indonesia's Communist press on charges of plotting to overthrow...
...Fowler B. McConnell, 63. president since 1946 of Sears, Roebuck & Co., the world's No. 1 general store, was named chairman of the board to succeed Theodore V. Houser, 65, who announced his retirement, even though Sears would not require his retirement until age 70. (Said Houser: "I am inaugurating what I hope will become a settled practice for Sears.") McConnell is a University of Chicago graduate who joined Sears as a stock boy in 1916, returned from serving as an infantry captain in France during World War I to become assistant shoe buyer, worked his way through both...
...Charles Merton Rohrabaugh, 63, executive vice president of Manhattan's Kudner advertising agency, was elected president to succeed J.H.S. Ellis, 64, who resigned in a move expected by the advertising world ever since Kudner lost the $24 million Buick account (TIME, Jan. 6). Minnesota-born Mert Rohrabaugh was principal of three Ohio high schools before entering advertising in 1925, joined Kudner...
...that every Communist be able to fight as Stalin fought." ("We say the name of God," explains Khrushchev, "but that is only a habit. We are atheists.") To Westerners who predicted that his destalinization program could be used to topple the Soviet empire, he shouted: "You will no more succeed at this than you will succeed in seeing your ear without a mirror...
...minority of four Cambridge Civic Association councilors may benefit from the disagreement among the Independents and succeed in electing one of their number. If they have their way, they will probably elect the city's first woman mayor, Mrs. Pearl K. Wise or Mrs. Cornelia Wheeler...