Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...released from duty as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe near the end of 1956. Gruenther's retirement from his NATO post and active service in the U.S. Army was assigned to "personal considerations." The council agreed with "great regret," asked Ike to name a U.S. successor. The President's choice: U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad...
...Lincolnesque look. Lawyer by profession, politician by instinct, latter-day New Dealer by choice, he became a newspaper publisher by marrying the boss's daughter. He quickly showed that the boss, Multimillionaire Eugene Meyer, now 80, could not have picked a more quick-witted, smoothly forceful successor...
...Bate's successor as chairman of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature will be Sterling Dow, John L. Hudson Professor of Archaeology...
Ways's successor in NATIONAL AFFAIRS is Senior Editor Louis Banks, 39, who has more interest in the sport of Presidents than the sport of kings. Sometime Golfer Banks was a reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner before he went off to war in the Pacific as a Navy pilot. He joined TIME's Los Angeles Bureau in 1945. Later, he was our diplomatic correspondent in Washington, came to New York in 1949 as a NATIONAL AFFAIRS writer...
...current support for Eisenhower's Republicanism highly questionable. There are many independents and even Democrats who would support Eisenhower--but not if Nixon is on the ticket. If the President is really attempting to bring the Republican Party up to date, he had better make sure that his possible successor has principles in which both Eisenhower and the nation can have confidence...