Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 21 distinguished months as full commander in Korea and close to 42 years in the Army as cadet and officer, rugged, flat-flanked General James Alward Van Fleet got the order that all soldiers await when they pass 60: report to Washington preparatory to retirement. His successor as commander of the Eighth Army: Lieut. General Maxwell D. Taylor...
President Conant left Cambridge last night after a brief unexplained appearance, possibly concerning the selection of his Harvard successor...
...controversy, which ha touched issues ranging from a "satisfactory-unsatisfactory" grading system to the use of sex education films, started in November, 1951, when Dr. Willard Goslin was removed from the superintendency of schools because of his progressive views. This week, Dr. Stuart McComb was named as his successor as a compromise between radical and conservative groups in the city...
Thus, even though Conant's successor will in all likelihood be selected before Commencement, Conant will still be President. His successor will be President Designate...
...period of history that covers a great depression, a world war and the present global struggle with communism. I might count it as the equivalent of forty. At all events under our revised statutes, I should have had only five years more before a discussion of my successor would have dominated the Harvard scene. As it is, I am, on short notice, anticipating my retirement, not resigning. The distinction is important to me if not to you. For I shall continue after September first as President Emeritus, an honorary connection with the University I have served almost continuously for forty...