Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speedily discovered "source" proved to be the official report of General Gamelin, successor to General Sarrail until the new Provisional High Commander, General Duport, was able to reach Damascus. It read, in part, as follows...
...Literally "Successor", (usually) of Mohammed. In the Koran the term is applied to Adam, as "viceregent...
...your issue of Oct. 19 that Chief Justice Fuller was the "only Roman Catholic" Chief Justice, but you were wrong again in your issue of Oct. 26, when you say that "the attributes erroneously attached to the name of Chief Justice Fuller were really those of his eminent successor, the late Chief Justice White...
...unflurried, enlightened Viceroy, his successor must bestir himself actively to match his worth...
Died. General Michael Frunze, 40, ruthless Soviet commander, exterminator of many Tsarists, sometime assistant and since last January successor to Leon Trotzky in the post of Soviet War Commissar (Minister); at Moscow, after two operations for intestinal ulcer. The Soviet Government gave a funeral "second in size and impressiveness only to that of Nikolai Lenin...