Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election day, some supporters had cast write-in votes for his son, gone out to marshal dead voters whose names could shoot his total higher. Now as the rain pattered outside, and shouting, drinking countrymen watched from the gallery, the legislature considered the two men eligible to succeed the departed Gene. With smug solemnity and a 161-87 vote, it chose Herman Talmadge...
...week's end the White House announced that Ike had found a man to fit his specifications. Appointed to the bench to succeed "Shay" Minton: New Jersey's Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., 50, a Roman Catholic (the first on the court since Frank Murphy) and lifelong Democrat (one of six). More important, Brennan is a jurist of solid experience and reputation (see box), was recommended for the job by New Jersey's able Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, and will be-with Justice Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan-one of the three Supreme...
...midst of his campaigning against Republican President Eisenhower, Democratic ex-President Harry S. Truman briefly switched from his give-'em-hell stance to his elder-statesman pose, announced: "The past President should be helpful to those who succeed...
...Manufacturers, the coeducational university not only provides the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a new liberal arts campus open to all faiths; it is also the only college in the area to take in Negroes on the undergraduate level. ¶Appointment of the week: Carroll Vincent Newsom, 52, to succeed Henry T. Heald as president of big (37.000 students) New York University. Carroll Newsom took his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, eventually became not only a top mathematics teacher, but a prolific producer of mathematics texts. At 29, he was head of the mathematics department at the University...
...prompted by signs that his empire may prove a dynasty. Son John, 28, is editor of the family's Newton Kansan; Stanley, 36, who was publisher of the Santa Maria (Calif.) Times for five years, is assistant publisher of the Topeka State Journal and in line to succeed his father...