Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more recent months, as the cold war got hotter, a Secretary of Defense might justifiably have asked for another examination of the policy of economy. Louis Johnson, Forrestal's successor, finally did, but only after he was prodded into it and then in a not-very-loud-voice (he asked for $350 million more). Up to that point the only sounds from Louis Johnson's office had been the swish of the ax and Louis Johnson's reassuring roars that he was simply cutting off fat, never touching a muscle...
...think he was going to fill his ears with wax to keep out political siren songs, Tom Dewey quickly reminded his hearers that he had twice before "retired" from public office like this. Dewey and Republican leaders had already agreed on whom they wanted as Tom Dewey's successor in Albany: ruddy-cheeked, back-slapping 74-year-old Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, onetime jockey, Presbyterian minister, lawyer and silver-tongued speaker on the Chautauqua circuit. In case any Democrats wanted to make something of Hanley's age, Dewey said pointedly, let them remember that their own Senator, Herbert...
...political engineer, he got Reformer Ellis Arnall elected against red-gallused old Gene Talmadge, then switched to elect Talmadge against Arnall's picked successor ("I wouldn't go along with him when he started registering all the niggers so I built up the picture for Gene"). When "Ol Gene" died, Roy engineered son Herman's attempt to snatch the governorship. He had gotten the poll tax repealed for Arnall; he got the white-supremacy primary passed for Herman...
...intellectual congress for peace, a Belgian proposal to form a committee to study the effects of new weapons, a Czech plan to outlaw atomic weapons. When the conference rejected these projects, Bodet got sore. Cried Bodet: "I ask the conference to place on the agenda the selection of my successor...
Last week, 64-year-old President Ashby decided that the sanitation process was complete and it was time to move over. His successor: Dr. Raymond B. Blakeny, Congregational minister and onetime China missionary, who promised "to do my best to build upon the firm foundation of my predecessor...