Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest lay-educational assignment of all: chairmanship of the White House Conference on Education. Ike was impressed by the way McElroy steered a conglomeration of free-wheeling individualists toward a hard-hitting, unified report which recommended that expenditures for education be doubled. When it came time to find a successor for Engine Charlie, Ike saw to it that McElroy's name was added to the list of candidates (TIME, July...
Bowing to the new school, the Hearst organization named as the successor to the beastly elf a quiet, competent assistant city editor named Leonard Riblett, 42, who has spent a lot of time in the last few years soothing staffers who wanted to assassinate that s.o.b. on the city desk...
...Athletics to win more ball games than they lost. And there was never much doubt that he would be fired if he failed. As the A's kept losing, the affable ex-shortstop lost his job last week after 15 years of major-league managing. Boudreau's successor: Harry Craft, one of Kansas City's coaches...
...Jail. In 1943 Allied bombers started the rain of bombs on Krupp's Essen plant that eventually destroyed a third of it. That same year the aging, ailing Gustav got Hitler to declare legal the famed Lex Krupp, giving the Krupps the privilege henceforth to name one successor as the sole owner of the empire. He would arrange substantial allowances for the rest of the family, among whom stock had previously been split. Gustav stepped down, and Alfried, a sensitive, retiring young man. became ruler of the vast Krupp holdings. For the rest of the war, he left most...
...Britain should leave the U.N. But it is certain that if the Assembly continues to take its decisions on grounds of enmity, opportunism, or purely jealousy and petulance, the whole structure may be brought to nothing." As a man who stoutly backed the ill-fated Egyptian adventure of his successor Sir Anthony Eden, Churchill to this day (like many Britons) deplores the part the U.N. played in halting the war short of victory, and he has always thought it unrealistic to give as much weight to the opinions of a small power as to a large. Said Churchill: "The shape...