Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After betting his job on a Willkie victory in the presidential election, Lewis resigned in 1940, picking Murray as his successor. Called a Lewis stooge, Murray issued a memorable statement: "I think I am a man," he said. "I have a soul, a heart and a mind. And, with the exception of my soul, they all belong...
This week, with foreign ministers of all the Big Five powers present at the General Assembly, Lie announced his long-planned resignation, urged the big powers to agree on a successor quickly, and expressed hope that his quitting might smooth chances for a Korean ceasefire...
...westward advances. The first was Illinois, Governor Stevenson's home state. The governor was carrying Chicago as any good Democrat should, but his total margin in Cook County looked so small that he could not possibly overbalance the strong Republican vote downstate. (Stevenson's hand-picked successor as the Democratic candidate for governor was running ahead of Stevenson who in 1948 had run nearly half a million votes ahead of Harry Truman.) In Michigan, heavily...
Meanwhile De Lattre's successor, sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, had dispatched a battalion of paratroopers to the trouble spot. They were dropped on a hill post near Nghialo but were quickly surrounded. In a heroic, exhausting, five-day march over the high ridges, bypassing Communists in the valleys, they made their way to the Black River. They had started carrying their wounded on bamboo stretchers, but when the litter carriers had no strength left, the wounded were left to their fate. The battalion chaplain stayed behind with them...
Died. Baha Alchesay, 87, last hereditary chief of the Apache Indians (since the Apaches have now become accustomed to government by elected council members, Baha named no successor); at Whiteriver, Ariz...