Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first press conference in two years, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., who has a passion for anonymity, announced his resignation from the job that he has held since Ike came into the White House. Reason: a desire to improve family fortunes by returning to private law practice. Successor: close friend and No. 1 aide, Deputy Attorney General William Pierce Rogers, who at 44 will be the youngest member of the Cabinet. It was the third major change in the Eisenhower Cabinet in three months (others: Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson for George Humphrey, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy for Charles Wilson...
...Republicans were led by their old hero, Ismet Inonu, 73, World War II President and chosen successor of the late great Kemal Ataturk himself. They charged that Menderes' reckless extravagance had only created economic chaos, that foreigners now refuse to ship Turkey even vital medicines without cash on the barrelhead, that the only thing Turkey has plenty of is yok (nothing). They complained that Menderes had suppressed freedom of the press, packed the courts to rubber-stamp his decisions, and altered the election code to keep opposition parties from forming coalition slates. Yet the windup rallies in Istanbul were...
Unless Adenauer changed his mind at the eleventh hour, Erhard had achieved his long-cherished ambition to wield overall direction of the West German economy. Should he also land the vice-chancellorship, Erhard would emerge as the top Cabinet officer, increasing his ranking as possible successor to der Alte himself...
...months since hearty, hail-fellow Robert Gordon Sproul, 66, announced that he would retire as president of the University of California in July 1958, the university's board of regents has scoured the entire nation for a successor. Last week they looked in their own backyard−and picked balding, mild-mannered Clark Kerr, 46, since 1952 the able and popular chancellor of the campus at Berkeley...
...mile Milwaukee Road. A hearty, old-style railroader, Kiley went to work full time for the Milwaukee after graduating as a civil engineer in 1914, bulled his way up as everything from rodman on a survey team to auditor of accounts before becoming president in 1950. His probable successor: Vice President and General Counsel William John Quinn, 46, a former FBI man who went to Milwaukee in 1954 after climbing to vice president and general counsel of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. One of Quinn's principal jobs will be to cut costs on the Milwaukee...