Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left the state in safe hands. In the bitter Republican primary, Duff denounced Grundy and his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association as a bunch of "high-button-shoe reactionaries." Duff won, against all the power that 87-year-old Grundy could bring against him. With him ran his hand-picked successor as governor, a superior court judge named John Fine...
...Likely successor to Grady when he does leave: Loy Henderson, Ambassador to India, onetime Minister to Iraq and longtime friend of the Arabs...
...with Harry Truman's help? White House Democrats, who don't really know what the boss's plans are (as of last week they thought he probably wouldn't run again), think that Harry Truman, if he does not run, will designate Vinson as his successor. Vinson is a poker-playing, Williamsburg-weekending pal of the President's, and regularly gives the President advice on appointments and legislation-a practice that might have horrified some of his predecessors as Chief Justice. Besides, he is conservative enough, regular enough, and close enough to the South...
Stuart portrait of George Washington, his 31st successor, Harry Truman, took one look at the picture and said: "He hasn't got his wooden teeth." Art experts called in a dental expert with calipers to measure Washington's nose, upper lip and chin, then compared the findings with similar measurements of other Stuart portraits. His verdict: President Truman is undoubtedly right; Stuart painted this portrait with the famous dentures missing...
...successor to Chancellor Deane W. Malott, now president of Cornell (TiME, Feb. 5), Dr. Murphy will take over 6,500 students, a 684-man faculty, and a $30 million plant with schools of medicine, law, pharmacy, business, engineering and architecture, journalism, and fine arts. In the last twelve years, K.U. has begun to climb from its place as a solid but unspectacular state university. Under Chancellor Murphy, it hopes to climb even faster...