Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 1957; that same month Kozlov was awarded full membership in the Presidium. Less than a year later, Khrushchev made him First Deputy Premier, ranking him with the crafty Armenian First Deputy Anastas Mikoyan. But Khrushchev has admitted to friendly diplomats that Kozlov, not Mikoyan, is his choice for successor as Premier...
...press conference question that is bound to come up in a hundred different ways between now and July 1960, as reporters and politicos try to get him to express a personal preference between Vice President Richard Nixon, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, or any other Republican who might be his successor. "I certainly shall never, so far as I am able, indicate publicly ... or privately [a personal preference], because I don't think it is correct or right." ¶ Observed the 43rd anniversary of his marriage to Mamie Geneva Doud with a seasoned philosophy: "I can just...
...have been able to bribe or buy off your workers." That was why free elections in the capitalist world are such a "farce."Though Konrad Adenauer had been elected Chancellor again and again, Khrushchev seemed to think that he was still the "most unpopular man in Germany." His successor would soon enough have to reckon with the power of Soviet missiles. At one point, Khrushchev indulged in a crude bit of humor that began, "Look at Adenauer in the nude, and you will understand Germany," and then went on from there...
...Southeast Louisiana Hospital, where Earl Long had been committed by his wife Blanche (who by now had fled the state). The second pair of letters announced Long's appointment of two of his oldtime cronies to the jobs. The fifth letter came from Bankston's newly appointed successor, addressed to Belcher's newly appointed successor. The gist: Earl K. Long is sane; he should be released from the mental hospital. Attorney General Jack Gremillion stood up: "Your Honor, there is no one now with authority to hold Earl K. Long at the hospital. The state joins...
...give up some views of his own." But he reserved the roughest treatment of all for his much-abused Vice Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard. To CBS, Adenauer confided that he planned to stay in office as Chancellor through the 1961 elections and expected to have a voice in selecting his successor, a clear hint that he might keep Erhard out of the job even then. To Paris-Match, Adenauer boasted that, in contrast to Erhard, he was a "100% politician" with a worldwide acquaintance among the world's leaders, including Khrushchev...