Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffman's interim successor, the Ford Foundation trustees selected H. (for Horace) Rowan Gaither Jr., 43, San Francisco lawyer, board chairman of the nonprofit Rand Corp. (scientific research), and onetime assistant director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's radiation laboratory. Gaither has been a Ford Foundation adviser since...
...University recently denied reports that Stevenson had been proposed by James B. Conant as successor for president of Harvard...
President Conant's successor has not yet been chosen, but the field of possible candidates has been narrowed down, a University spokesman said last night. The Corporation has been meeting each Monday since the president's resignation in an effort to find a successor. Normally the Corporation meets every other week...
...University last night also officially denied a story that President Conant had recommended Adlai Stevenson as his successor. It pointed out that the president does not take part in the selection of a man to follow him, the choice being made by the remaining six members of the Corporation--the treasurer and five Fellows...
Biggest story in the news was ex-High Commissioner John J. McCloy's meeting with his successor at Cambridge. McCloy is highly respected in Germany and his endorsement of Conant preceding the first Godkin Lecture increased German favor for the appointment. Newspapers also played up the fact Conant had studied in Germany at one time...