Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed to many Congressmen at the end of the 1958 session that the man most likely to succeed Texas' 77-year-old Sam Rayburn as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was Arkansas' courtly, bass-voiced Wilbur Daigh Mills. With his combination of brains, earnestness and Southern charm. Mills was liked and respected on both sides of the aisle. Two years ago, at 48, he became the youngest chairman in the history of Congress' most important committee, tax-writing Ways & Means, and he showed promise of being a great one. He already knew more about...
...continue to work on a feasible plan to substitute law for violence or the threat of it. It is lawyers' work, predominantly lawyers' work. The legal profession in every country in the world must be ultimately summoned to a great conference of lawyers if we are to succeed. The stake is so great the goal is worth the effort...
...overseeing longterm, low-interest loans for the world's underdeveloped nations. So well has he handled the job that President Eisenhower last week nominated him for a post that will keep him away from Ohio even more: managing director of the two-year-old Development Loan Fund, to succeed Dempster Mclntosh, who resigned July 1 to become Ambassador to Colombia...
...Competition Animal. Ever since his birth in the Cevennes Mountains of southern France, Jacques Soustelle has been what the French call "a competition animal." Born with a double handicap-his family was poor and of France's Protestant minority-Soustelle early decided that "I had to succeed, and quick." With the encouragement of his mother (who at 70 recently retired from work) and his mechanic stepfather, he won a lycee scholarship at eight, relentlessly mastered Greek, Latin, English and mathematics, at 20 placed first in philosophy among 250 candidates for France's highest scholastic competition...
...when Reporters Franken and Grove, both members of the American Newspaper Guild, a C.I.O. affiliate, offered their services-at $5 a week-as undercover editors of the C.I.O. News. The column "Checking the Press" had been introduced in 1950 with the News's hope that it would "succeed in forcing the daily papers to report the news that they now suppress...