Word: successor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garner thought that Henry Wallace, his successor as Vice President, had "crazy ideas" and that Henry Morgenthau "had no ideas at all." Garner wondered "by just what methods of sorcery one of such meager abilities remained in the high post of Secretary of the Treasury." Once Garner said: "Morgenthau is the most servile man toward Roosevelt. . . . In Cabinet meetings, he looks like he is afraid someone will ask him a question and he will give an answer that will displease Roosevelt."* Garner tried to joke with Morgenthau, gave it up "because he had no sense of humor." Then he amended...
...stuffy goodbye to the troops," said retiring Chief of Staff Ike Eisenhower. Accordingly, the ceremony in the Pentagon was brief. President Truman drove over from the White House. In Army Secretary Royall's unpretentious office Ike stepped forward, administered the oath of office to his friend & successor, homely, homespun General Omar Bradley. Then the President pinned a Distinguished Service Medal (his third) on Ike's chest. "I'm highly honored," said Ike. "It gives me more pleasure than you," replied Truman...
...Hundreds of families left the city for the country. Caraqueños, who have never known an air raid, need not have been panicky. President Romulo Betancourt was on top of the situation, and besides, the bombing was not due until Feb. 15, the inauguration day of his successor, Novelist Romulo Gallegos...
...typesetter in 1896, Burns Mantle was once unable to decipher a critic's longhand review, wrote one of his own, went on writing reviews until he retired in 1943. A kindly observer who occasionally risked being dull in his efforts to be fair, he advised his Daily News successor that Broadway was his oyster: "Season it with a dash of salt and a lot of pep-but go easy with the tabasco...
Back in 1935, Athletic Director Bill Bingham used up six weeks finding Eddie Casey's successor, Dick Harlow. Five weeks have elapsed since Harlow resigned. Which means precisely nothing, except that five subtracted from six leaves...