Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast for Roosevelt's one attempt to carry out his campaign pledge for economy: a half billion cut in federal spending, mostly in veteran's benefits. But with NRA and its $3 billion relief provision, Byrd broke with Roosevelt-and stayed broken, both with F.D.R. and his successor, Harry Truman, who once snapped that there were "too many Byrds in the Senate...
...Interests. Bourguiba, whose ill-equipped army of 6,200 men could not conceivably stand up to a serious French attack, was taking a major gamble. "I have promised the Tunisian people that the French army will go," said he. "If I fail, I will be swept away." Clearly, any successor in such circumstances would be far more hostile to France and the West...
...eloquent man, who has promised to bring private capital back into such state-dominated fields as banking, power production and housing, Echandi triumphed in an election notably free of bloodshed or ballot juggling. His National Union Party, backed by two former Presidents, polled 103,326 votes. Figueres' chosen successor, Francisco Orlich, a former Public Works Minister, drew 97,102 votes, and Jorge Rossi, a maverick from the Figuerista ranks...
...Gurion is still spry, but increasingly conscious of his years. Some suspect he had deliberately ordered Dayan out of uniform and into politics with the idea of grooming him as his successor...
Viewed by more than 100,000 gallerygoers yearly, the Freer Chinese bronze collection includes axes, swords and daggers, basins, wine cups and pitchers, clapperless bells, mirrors and food vessels. Freer had accumulated 725 pieces; John Ellerton Lodge, the first director, and his successor Archibald Wenley, added some 140 more, stuck rigidly to Freer's high standards. Experts estimate that some of the bronzes go back to the Shang Dynasty (1766-1122 B.C.). While their quality and style vary, Alan Priest, Far East curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, puts all in a single category: "Magnificent...