Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legal technicality than on a basic constitutional issue. Tom Clark, still trying to live down his name as Harry Truman's most patent political appointee, tends (with some notable exceptions) to follow the lead of the Chief Justice, whether it be Fred.Vinson or Vinson's successor, Earl Warren. HarIan, a "lawyer's lawyer," has broader previous experience at the bar and the bench than any of his colleagues, but he is the court's newest member and his way has not been clearly charted...
...Washington towns; 60 have already organized informal study groups of their own. In the 22 communities where rejuvenation is accomplished or underway, 700 new jobs have been created, a total of $10 million worth of improvement projects financed. Says lean, intense Jack E. Wright, 37, Poston's successor as bureau director: "You can't have community lumbago when...
Last week a two-paragraph item in Pravda reported that Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, at his own request, had resigned his post as labor boss of Russia. His successor is Alexander Petrovich Volkov, chairman of the rubber-stamp Council of the Union, and a man so little known that the latest edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia does not even list...
President Manuel Odria did not originally plan any such free vote. An orderly general who has brought Peru a glow of prosperity by his economic reforms, Odria cherished the ambition of designating a friendly successor who would carry on his work. His plan was to offer one official candidate to the electorate for ratification, thus neatly fulfilling constitutional forms. But over the last year, step by step, the controlled election got out of control. Now, while Peru and Odria watch in suspense, three candidates are battling unpredictably for the presidency...
...dictator, gave no backing at all to the abortive February uprising of army officers at Iquitos (TIME, Feb. 27). Odria's negotiations with APRA grew serious. He offered the party eventual legality and the immediate right to run candidates for Congress if APRA would support his chosen successor...