Word: successor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vacuum. Three days after Gottwald's death, no successor had been announced. Moscow, well aware of the dangerous power vacuum, sent a delegation to Prague headed by Marshal Bulganin-ostensibly to attend Gottwald's funeral. Outside the Iron Curtain, there was speculation that Czechoslovakia might abolish the office of President; even so, somebody had to be the country's boss. The chief aspirants were Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky, 69, who is old for the job and perhaps not aggressive enough; Defense Minister Alexei Cepicka, 43, who rose to favor by marrying Gottwald's daughter...
...Stalin and his works, but the Chinese Reds handled Malenkov's succession with almost cold reserve, were slow to slip into anything resembling a real buildup of the new Kremlin boss. In a long panegyric to the late Stalin, Mao's only reference to Stalin's successor was: "We fully believe the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government, headed by Comrade Malenkov, will definitely be able to follow Comrade Stalin's behest to drive forward . . ." First the party, then the government, then Malenkov. One possible explanation: Mao recognizes...
...parting address to the United Nations, Trygve Lie outlined the course of his successor's probable troubles. If a new Secretary-General often decides against Russia he will be hounded by the pressure tactics that have forced Lie's resignation. But if the new man caters too much to Soviet interests, Western objections will plague him with almost equal force...
When President Conant first speaks to the man who is to be his successor at Harvard, he may very well repeat the words he wrote in his last report on the University; "...to inform the potential applicants in far away communities about Harvard College is one of the urgent tasks that lie ahead...
...Brownell's plan, despite opposition from both factions, is a temperate solution to an inherited problem. Always outspokenly in favor of federal control, Harry Truman signed the oil over to the Navy last January for defense use. His successor could rescind Truman's fare-well gesture with a second executive order. But to legally deed the land to the states requires a Congressional quit claims bill...