Word: succeeding
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While teaching law part-time at the University of Arkansas, he impressed the board of trustees, some of whom were personal friends. When the university's longtime president died in an automobile accident in 1939, the trustees picked Fulbright, only 34, to succeed him. But two years later, when his redoubtable mother attacked Governor Homer Adkins in her column, the board, dominated by the Governor, swiftly fired Fulbright...
...launched out on one of his lectures about the evils of party divisions between the White House and Congress. To prevent a deadlocked Government, he suggested that if Republicans seized Congress, Harry Truman really ought to appoint Republican Arthur Vandenberg Secretary of State, then resign himself and let Vandenberg succeed to the presidency (the vice-presidency was vacant, and in those days the Secretary of State was still next in line). The G.O.P. did win, and after the election the reporter asked Fulbright if he still felt the same way. Sure, he said. "That overeducated Oxford s.o.b.," fumed Harry...
According to the official newspaper Al Ahram, the Assembly was "stunned into moments of solemn silence" by Nasser's words, but did he really mean to quit? Well, hardly. Under Nasser's constitution the President may succeed himself, and Nasser pointedly failed to rule himself out as a draft choice for renomination. His message got through. Suddenly the Assembly was flooded by a deluge of telegrams, petitions and let ters urging Nasser's renomination. Visitors descended on the chamber, hurrying to get their support down in writing in the guest book. One entry attested that "The Ministry...
...respected by business, admired by labor. But Rampton is determined to push through a massive bonding program for new state construction, boost both state income and corporate-franchise tax rates, and repeal the state right-to-work law over the opposition of the powerful Mormon Church. Should he succeed in his program to "get Utah moving," Cal Rampton certainly stands to lose some friends...
...went on to gain a vast unofficial influence in educational circles because he was so often consulted on appointments of top-level school superintendents, such as New York City's Calvin Gross. In 1962 Keppel himself was tapped for the commissioner's job by President Kennedy to succeed Sterling McMurrin, who had decided to go back to teaching philosophy in Utah after a frustrated tenure of 17 months...