Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball world, the resignation was no surprise. In the middle of the 1949 season, after weeks of wrangling among his players, Southworth, never quite recovered from the death of his son in a wartime B-29 crash, quit with a nervous breakdown. By this year, his successor had been picked: ex-Braves Rightfielder Tommy Holmes, 34, who was under training as manager of the Braves' Hartford (Conn.) farm club. When Billy Southworth, at 58, finally retired for good, Holmes was ready to step in. Said he: "It just happened sooner than I thought it would...
...been that long in the boiler room of the ship," he wrote, "had better come up on deck for a breath of fresh air and a look at the horizon." Besides, he was anxious to get going on his new book, The Image of Man, meant to be a successor to two earlier books, A Preface to Morals and The Good Society...
...expansion did continue; but so did the FRB suit against it. Stern old Amadeo P. Giannini denounced the whole thing as an Eccles plot. In any case, he had been reducing Transamerica's interest in the Bank of America. After old A.P.'s death, his son and successor, Lawrence Mario Giannini, kept on selling Transamerica's holdings in Bank of America, once 99%, until they were reduced to only 7.66%. Said Mario Giannini: "The Bank of America is not controlled by Transamerica in any manner...
...After two years of troubles which threatened to bring in a fascist as his successor, the country was turned over to an army junta...
...torrent of anti-British, anti-U.S. feeling, his successor, Mohammed Mossadeq, prepared to implement a bill which...