Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later stocky Auguste Lecoeur, once considered a logical successor to Thorez, but drummed out of the party in 1954 for criticizing party strategy, was scheduled to speak in the northern French town of Hénin-Liétard, where he had once been a Communist Deputy. Lecoeur is busy these days trying to promote an independent leftist movement. The Communist Party issued orders: "All workers will prevent Lecoeur from performing his nefarious piece of work." When the doors of the hall opened, a crowd of 1,000 Communist bullyboys, who had descended...
Died. Charlotte Carr, 66, gusty, bushy-browed social worker, successor to the late Jane Addams as head (1937-43) of Chicago's famed slum settlement Hull House, head of all home relief in teeming New York City during the hard-pressed mid-'30s of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...intimidated victims-the customers-were confirmed when Hans Paul, headwaiter at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was sent to prison; over four years, the Government charged, Headwaiter Paul had evaded payment of $67,070 in taxes-all due on tips. Last week another headwaiter-Hans Paul's successor-was in similar trouble. The Internal Revenue Service charged in an indictment that the Waldorf's Arthur Hagedorn, 54, whose salary is $3,000 a year, made at least an additional $30,000 a year in tips, had evaded income taxes of $11,781 in two years. Although few others...
Near Berastegui sprawls a 17,000-acre ranch that Rojas recently bought in an unusual auction. Originally the judge in charge of the sale insisted that the bidding start at 2,500,000 pesos. He was abruptly dismissed from his post. His successor lowered the starting bid by 800,000 pesos, and Rojas, the sole bidder, snapped up for 1,700,000 an estate worth an estimated...
...President Augustus C. Long, 51, was named to succeed Texas Co.'s John Sayles Leach, chairman and chief executive officer, who reaches the mandatory retirement age of 65 in September. Long's successor in the presidency: James W. Foley, 44. Long and Foley, a young top-management team, will captain the third largest U.S. international oil company (behind Standard Oil of N.J. and Gulf in oil reserves and gross income). Chairman-elect Long graduated from Annapolis ('26), joined Texaco after a hitch with the Navy. In World War II he saw Navy duty in London, helped Allied...