Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made him one of the most influential and respected men in the Middle East and Bahrein a shining example of what Western techniques and money could do for backward nations. In gratitude for Belgrave's achievements, Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1952. Sheik Hamed's son and successor, Sulman bin Hamed al Khalifah, told a visitor: "We consider Mr. Belgrave to be not an Englishman but a Bahreini. He is my hand...
That was as far as the President would go to dictate the choice of his possible successor. Pressed to commit himself to Nixon-or to comment on other well-qualified Republicans-Ike dug his heels in. Said he firmly: "I have said that I would not express a preference. I have . . . said [Nixon] is perfectly acceptable to me, as he was in 1952. But I am not going beyond that." Beyond that he hardly needed...
collapsing into chaos, but he left harrowing problems behind for his successor. "The honeymoon of the revolution is over," says Siles. "I will have to face the realities." Among the grim realities: ¶ Inflation has galloped to the point that 7,000 bolivianos bring only $1 on the free market...
...Welles Hangen: "Soviet censorship is becoming less severe, but it remains arbitrary and capricious." For example, when the ouster of Internal Affairs Minister Sergei Kruglov was revealed in a back-page item in Pravda, the Times bureau filed a story at 6 a.m. labeling Kruglov's successor as a Khrushchev man. It passed. That afternoon Hangen wrote a second-day story elaborating on the same theme. It was killed...
...Learned that British Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Roger Makins is to be recalled to London to become Permanent Secretary to the Treasury. Sir Roger's successor: the Foreign Office's Deputy Under Secretary Sir Harold Caccia...