Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reached last night in Chocorua, N. H., Hoadley explained that he was five years from retirement age and that "since Leverett is to be rebuilt, it seems wise to leave the pain and pleasure of that job to my successor...
Religion may be booming in the U.S., and Episcopalians may be as prosperous as any other Christian denomination, but last week the publishers of Episcopal Churchnews, a fortnightly for laymen, announced that the five-year-old magazine would cease publication with its Aug. 18 issue. Successor to the venerable weekly Southern Churchman, founded in 1835, Churchnews strove for a snappy, newsy approach ("Old North Church Will Wheeze No More," "Vicar's Worry: They Love 'Lucy' More Than Evensong"). But the magazine never really managed to make church trade news sound lively, and beefing up the contents with...
...gravely weakened before he fell by Gronchi's rage when Segni's Foreign Minister refused to forward to President Eisenhower a private letter in which President Gronchi criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East. And it was clearly at Gronchi's behest that Segni's successor, outspoken Adone Zoli, sought to form a monocolore (single party) government that would moderate Italy's hitherto staunchly pro-Western foreign policy into a more independent policy called, with grandiloquent vagueness, "neo-Atlantism...
...Hodja Boyar "spoke in a moment of religious ecstasy and should be forgiven," and it seemed foregone that the entire Assembly would next agree. But when the motion reached the floor, it ran into eloquent and unyielding opposition from 72-year-old ex-President Ismet Inonu, Ataturk's successor and now leader of the opposition Republican People's Party. He invoked a strong feeling: though Turkey remains a Moslem country, a whole generation of Turks has been brought up to believe that progress and democracy became possible only after Ataturk abolished the fez, separated church and state. Pointedly...
...Departments all too often recommend for promotion those men who most nearly come up to their rigid motions of their standards. And it is still an all too common practice for an aging professor to pick a fair haired young boy out of GSAS and groom his as his successor...