Word: successor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates came to Paris from twelve European nations that are getting aid from the U.N.'s International Children's Emergency Fund (an UNRRA successor), which is helping feed 4,000,000 children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. The anti-Communist Italian delegate interpreted for the Bulgarian comrade. On the Fund's staff are men of 13 nationalities; the director is an American; his deputy is from Tito's Yugoslavia...
...mine camp, becoming a brilliant, wealthy engineer-all this is good, moving Horatio Alger stuff. And Lyons is doubtless on the side of historical justice when he insists that President Hoover was 1) not responsible for the depression, and 2) anticipated many of the economic remedies for which his successor was later hailed...
...successor at FAO, Norris E. Dodd, retiring U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture, was ready to take over where Sir John was leaving off. Said Dodd: "My great hope is that ... I can march forward on the path he marked...
There were 9,525 Messengers in Memphis last week-the largest number of delegates ever to attend an annual Southern Baptist Convention. High on the agenda: the choice of a successor to President Louie De Votie Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab...
With such campaigning last week, the gaunt, 6-ft. candidate of the conservative opposition was working mightily to close the lead of sleek, smiling Auténtico Candidate Carlos Prio Socarrás, President Grau's own choice to be his successor. Ricardo Núñez' first bid for public office was a strong one. The son of the general who ran up the flag of Cuban independence over Havana's Morro Castle in 1902, he was one of the island's most solid citizens. Pennsylvania-born, he trained at Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital...