Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week friends hailed MacArthur's appointment to succeed Ambassador John Allison as "a natural." But the feeling was not universal; commented Tokyo's second biggest newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun, "The name MacArthur will not make the man's job any easier." The job: to follow up Allison's "civilianizing" of post-occupation Japanese-American relations. Chief problems: the future status of U.S. military bases in Japan, growing demands for return of such prewar Japanese possessions as Okinawa and the Bonin Islands, Japan's desire for more trade with Communist China...
...lawbreakers, from the drunken driver to the crooked official, ever succeed in bullying or bribing U.S. newsmen to keep their names out of the paper. Yet editors go out of their way to shield one type of criminal: the juvenile delinquent. By long tradition, or in many states by law, the great majority of U.S. newspapers never name juvenile delinquents, i.e., offenders under the ages of 16, 17 or 18, depending on local law and custom, unless they commit major crimes such as rape or murder...
...David M. Kennedy, 51, vice president of the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, ninth largest bank in the U.S. (total deposits: $2,473,000,000), was elected president to succeed Carl A. Birdsall, who died three weeks ago. The Mormon son of a Utah rancher, Dave Kennedy graduated from Weber College ('28) in Ogden, Utah, then served the customary two-year term as a Mormon missionary in England. Afterwards he joined the Federal Reserve as a technical assistant to the director of bank operations, spent nights studying law and economics at George Washington University...
...period of major studios with their assembly-line production of dozens of movies every year. The new era features independent production in which each movie gets autonomous handling even when it is done within the framework of a big studio. The man most likely to succeed Schary: Ben Thau, a top M-G-M executive known as a tough businessman...
...Dulles' illness leaves open the possibility that the man holding the job of Undersecretary will succeed him. It was hardly comforting to think of Herbert Hoover, Jr., the man Herter will replace next month, as Secretary of State. Hoover's blunders on several important occasions have obscured the achievement which won him his job: successfully ending the Iranian oil dispute...