Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's fast-stepping piece of partisan dialectic, Harry S. Truman, ex-President of the U.S., gave his successor in the White House an old-fashioned hickory-stick tanning. The speech, delivered in New York to the Roosevelt Day Dinner of the Americans for Democratic Action, turned out a long list of scorching criticisms of the Republican Administration...
...example, both in judgment and accuracy. Every Crimed knows the worst ones by heart and can reel them off as a hopeful chant against future mistakes. But for every misquote or proofing back, back are countless bright sports: the extra editions when a president resigns and when his successor is chosen; the announcement that, for the fifth straight year, the paper has won the Dana Reed prize for undergraduate writing; or perhaps, just the daily satisfaction is watching a paper materialize--sometimes as a weak paper, sometimes a strong one, but always a newspaper...
Professor Randall Thompson said yesterday he was glad Woodworth had agreed to take over the course. He called the choral instructor the logical successor to Davison. Thompson felt that although the new lecturer would probably change the course externally, he would retain its basic aims...
...fought everybody for an independent U.S. Air Force which could make the most of its new capabilities. They got formal independence from Congress and President Truman in 1947. But the declaration of independence did not end the revolution. Tooey Spaatz, as the first Chief of Staff, U.S.A.F., and his successor, Hoyt Vandenberg, still had their hands full. One hand tried to fashion an atom-jet striking force to stop the threat of Communism; the other fought off the Army and Navy, which did not cotton to the Air Force's demands for money-much more money than...
...economists on the team. In addition to the eight men, who will work on a full-time basis, several men will serve as consultants for a six week to three month period, including John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and Wasslly W. Leontief, Black's successor to the seat...