Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo, General Mark Clark, completing 17 months as commander of American and U.N. forces in the Far East, went down to the airport to greet his successor, General John E. Hull, and gave him an enthusiastic welcome: "Boy, am I glad to see you!" Next day, the generals set off on a two-day inspection tour of South Korea, where President Syngman Rhee presented Clark with the Taeguk Order, South Korea's highest military award, for "eminently meritorious conduct" in the Korean war. Before flying home to the U.S., Clark was asked about rumors that he might become...
President Ruiz Cortines is a very fine man. That's why Aleman made him his understudy for many years in the difficult task of ruling Mexico wisely and, with no prodding from anyone, picked him to be his successor...
...closer to Warren than Republican Goodwin Knight. In his statement, Warren said not a word about electing another Republican as governor, but did dwell at length on the benefits of "periodic change of administration." Could Earl Warren, in his independent heart, be leaning toward Democrat Brown as his successor...
...decided things were getting out of hand. In Mexican politics, such former Presidents as Manuel Avila Camacho, and the enigmatic Lázaro Cárdenas, holed up in his western mountains, exercise great power in the background. When the time came to choose Alemán's successor, the party leaders did not interfere with Alemán's right to pick him. But they warned him that he had better not name any of his cronies...
Schumacher's successor is tubby little Erich Ollenhauer. He lacks spark, and his party lacks an issue. Old-fashioned Socialist oratory about class warfare falls on deaf ears in the Germany of today. For a time, German unity looked like a hot issue: all Germans want it, and Adenauer seemed slow about pressing for it. But since the June 17 East German riots, Adenauer's contemptuous and firm treatment of the Russians has proven good politics...