Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner had Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton announced his resignation last month than rumors started about the name of his successor. Columnist Drew Pearson reported that a Negro, Judge William H. Hastie of Philadelphia's Third U.S. Court of Appeals and former governor of the Virgin Islands, was a likely candidate. At presidential press conferences, reporters badgered Ike on the possibilities of a Southern appointee to salve bitter feelings over the segregation issue, or perhaps a New Englander, to get a wider geographical spread on the court...
...successor, Nils Wessell, was a former student of Carmichael's and was brought to Tufts as dean of the college when the Psychology Chairman became President in 1939. Indeed it was through Carmichael, a Tufts graduate in 1921, that Wessell first heard of the Medford College. Actually Wessell was studying for his Ph.D. in psychology at Rochester with the intention of going into Industrial Personnel work...
...last year the old leaders began creeping back from Red China. Sanzo Nozaka returned, declared himself successor to Party Secretary Kyuichi Tokuda, who had died in Peking in 1953. Nozaka lost no time in cutting Shida down to size. "There has been ultra-leftist adventurism," he cried, and prescribed a policy of nonviolence and a popular front with the Socialists. Suddenly Shida disappeared. For nearly nine months nothing more was heard...
Drew's departure leaves the Tories with no obvious successor, but a handful of likely candidates among their senior M.P.s. The party high command expects to call a convention for November or December to pick a new leader, then start the national buildup that they hope will give him a fighting chance for victory next year...
...giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. quietly reshuffled its top command last week. After five years as president, Cleo F. Craig, 63, moved out of the operating slot and up to chairman of the board well before the mandatory retirement age of 65 in order to give his successor a two-year break-in period. A.T & T.'s new chief executive: President Frederick R. Kappel (rhymes with apple), 54, a 32-year man at A.T. & T., who has been head of the company's manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric, since...