Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the San Francisco Chronicle's President and Publisher George Cameron died a fortnight ago, there was little doubt about who would be his successor. For the past three years, Cameron's nephew, Assistant Publisher Charles de Young Thieriot, 40, has been virtually running the Chronicle. Last week, as San Franciscans expected, the Chronicle's board of directors named Thieriot president, publisher and editor...
...important as it was, however, to history concentrators, Taylor agrees that its successor under Gen Ed, Social Sciences 1, has succeeded ing provoking important ideas as well as providing facts, and in improving teaching methods. "I appreciate extremely the opportunity to convert History 1 to Social Sciences 1. I, and I think the staff, have enjoyed it much more, and felt that we have been giving a much better article for both concentrator and non-concentrator...
...opinion is the drive to reunite their country. Any German political leader less staunch than Der Alte might have been pressured into it. But Adenauer's loyalty to the Western alliance is so crystal-clear that the Russians did not explicitly ask him to budge. Nor could any successor to Adenauer, less loyal, inherently, to the concept of Western unity, afford to disregard the strength that West Germany derives from the West. It is perhaps this infusion that enabled West Germany last week to negotiate with the Russians as between equals...
...days after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in April 1945, his successor telephoned Jesse Jones. The President, he said, had appointed John Snyder, a St. Louis banker, as Federal Loan administrator. Jones was surprised. "Did he make that appointment before he died?" he asked. "No," snapped President Harry S. Truman. "He made it just...
...must withdraw presently from the Washington whirlpool, and perhaps from future political battles altogether. We regret that the President, must suffer illness, because of the sorrow surrounding any sickness, and, more important, because the Republican Party needs Eisenhower to fulfill its duties of national leadership. The President's present successor, Richard Nixon, is an obvious reason why this is true...