Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved swiftly to calm the storm. He signed a law, already passed by the Assembly, abolishing the corps, ordered the arrest of the corps commander, a hulking ex-wrestler named Kim Yong Keun. The Assembly was not pacified. It refused to elect a Rhee man as Lee's successor, instead chose Kim Sung Soo, 60, wealthy head of the anti-Rhee Democratic Nationalist Party and respected member of Seoul's Rotary Club...
...Union ... He issued an order altering Fremont's proclamation so that it should conform to and not "transcend" the act of Congress ... A storm of indignation broke out throughout the North . . . Outraged Abolitionists clamored for the impeachment of Lincoln; and Fremont supporters proposed him as Lincoln's successor...
...Prince Mansour Ibn Abdul Aziz, 29, Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia, a favorite son of King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud; of uremia; in Neuilly, France. In 1945, with his father, he was entertained by Franklin Roosevelt aboard the U.S.S. Quincy in the Red Sea, was long considered the likely successor to Saudi Arabia's throne...
...their topical touch, were usually satisfied to dress up old ideas rather than try new ones. Now, Harry, 69, and Al, 68, plan to get out of the business altogether. Only Jack, 59, will remain with the company until the new owners find another production boss. A likely successor is Lurie's friend Louis B. Mayer, whose feud with Dore Schary at M-G-M may make him glad to leave when his contract runs out on Sept. 1. Hollywooders think that if Mayer goes in, he may eventually buy Warner's production lot. Lurie hasn...
...campaign to 'sell' our children on the collapse of our way of life." The council's Chairman Frank Wells used the writings of rabble-rousing Allen Zoll, onetime advocate of Father Coughlin, to back up his charge that progressive education fosters juvenile delinquency. Wells's successor, Osteopath Ernest Brower, was convinced that sex education (a pre-Goslin innovation) would lead straight to free love, which would lead straight to Communism...