Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter of resignation to Governor George Bell Timmerman. At the same time he announced that he would be a candidate to succeed himself. Last week Timmerman appointed Greenville Attorney Thomas A. Wofford, 47, to Thurmond's Senate seat, which Wofford promised to relinquish in November. His probable successor: Thurmond...
...Hugh Gaitskell, Attlee's successor as head of the Socialists, who led the Opposition assault. His voice ringing out with assurance, Gaitskell took charge of the House with what a veteran member called "possibly the best speech he has given in Parliament." He summed up, as government debaters had not bothered to, the grave consequences of General Glubb's expulsion from command of Jordan's British-paid army: "It increases the danger of war. It is a very serious setback to the policy of the Baghdad Pact. It accordingly becomes clear, surely, that we must have...
...gesture to APRA? Lima observers reasoned that: 1) he is genuinely anxious to run off a free election; and 2) having failed to form a coalition with Peru's right wing, he is now willing to dicker with the left for the votes he needs to elect a successor who will carry on his cherished economic program...
...importance in the Soviet world is indicated by the fact that she shares her promotion as an alternate to the Party Presidium with Red army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Pravda Editor Dmitry Shepilov (often rumored to be Molotov's eventual successor as Foreign Minister), aging Nikolai Shvernik, longtime trade unions boss, and two party leaders from the critical Virgin Land areas, where a massive effort is being made to boost agricultural production. The whole package bears the Khrushchev stamp...
...successful 1948 revolution, but soon broke with Odria. Lately, Beltran has been booming a wealthy fellow businessman, Pedro Rosello, as an anti-government candidate in elections set for June. Beltran's newspaper La Prensa has loudly accused Odria of plotting to steal the elections for a hand-picked successor. To the dictator, this charge was suggestively reflected in Merino's manifesto. Cops raided and closed La Prensa. They arrested Beltran, Rosello, scores of others...