Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiasm at the idea of seeing him safely removed from active politics. The independent Irish Times, which has often bitterly attacked Dev and his "break all links with Britain" policy, said that Dev was "the fitting choice" for President, and there were few in Ireland to disagree. His possible successor as Taoiseach: Deputy Prime Minister Sean Lemass, able Minister for Industry and Commerce. A golf-playing, hard-driving executive of French ancestry, Lemass was the youngest man in the garrison, a mere spalpeen, at the Dublin General Post Office during the 1916 Rising. The story goes that a British officer...
...kingmaker, Fulgencio Batista, an orderly-room sergeant who filled the vacuum after Machado. Said he: "I think it would be criminal to take advantage of the power I have achieved; I can never become President." In 1940 he became President. After four years Batista allowed his hand-picked successor to be defeated in Cuba's first honest election and retired to Daytona Beach to enjoy his graft. The administrations of Ramón Grau San Martin. (1944-48) and Carlos Prío Socarrás (1948-52) respected civil liberties but not the treasury. Prío amassed...
AFTER every debauch, someone must pick up - the pieces and arrange to pay the damages. In Argentina, nearly bankrupt after a giddy decade under Dictator Juan Perón, the cleanup man is dour, professorial Arturo Frondizi, 50, the country's 31st President. Frondizi is the successor to Provisional President Pedro Aramburu (TIME Cover, June 3, 1957), the general who restored Argentina's democratic political system and presided over the free election a year ago that gave Frondizi a victory. In six months, Frondizi has sharply lifted Argentina's prestige and credit by a stern, undemagogic economic...
BOSTON--Stanley (Bucky) Harris, who has devoted most of his 61 years to baseball, Thursday was named successor to Joe Cronin as general manager of the Boston...
When the gold ribbon and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor is draped around his neck this week. General Charles de Gaulle will formally become President of France for the next seven years. Only then will De Gaulle officially name his successor as Premier. But, noting that would-be Cabinet ministers were all beating a path to the same office. Paris pundits were sure that the job would go to short (5 ft. 5 in.), elegant Justice Minister Michel Debr...