Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything from the Marshall Plan but me," he says.) To replace the bickering priests, he imported four members of his own order, the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, sent them bustling about the community. When the bishop died, Father Tuck was influential in the choice of his successor, a French priest who knew and understood the Italo-French people of the Riviera. Father Tuck also abolished first, second-and third-class weddings in favor of an egalitarian, one-class ceremony, and he organized the youth of Monaco in a junior Newman Club. Gradually, the spiritual condition of the principality...
...Labor M.P.s listened in tense silence, the teller read out: "There voted for Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, 157; Mr. Aneurin Bevan, 70." In third place, with a humiliating 40 votes, was old Herbert Morrison, who only two years ago was recognized as Attlee's likely successor...
...Successor to Clement Attlee as leader of Britain's Labor Party and a future Prime Minister if Labor should return to power: Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell...
...president of the Air Transport Association after six months in office. Pearson's highhanded running of A.T.A. threatened the prestige of the scheduled airlines that make up the organization; e.g., he threatened to pull airline advertising out of a newspaper that editorialized against airplane noise. Pearson's successor: Stuart G. Tipton, 45, A.T.A.'s general counsel...
With jets athunder, a new de Havilland Comet III, successor to the ill-starred Comet I, took off from Hatfield, north of London last week and roared 11.440 miles to Sydney, Australia in record flying time: 24 hr. 23 min.. for an average speed of about 475 m.p.h. All Britain hailed the flight as a national triumph...