Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard-headed businessmen who run the Congo government, the signs of a Negro awakening present not a danger but a challenge. "Once advance has begun, you cannot stop it, on any front," says Economist Henri Cornélis, Pétillon's deputy and almost certain successor. The Brussels Cabinet agrees, and the result is that the Congo government is getting ready to give the Congolese a small voice in the colony's affairs. Some time next year, if present plans are carried out, the literate Africans in the principal Congo cities (15% of the total native population...
...they would increase their overall majority in the House of Commons, from their present 19 to perhaps 100 seats, the Tories are by no means a shoo-in. As ex-Prime Minister Churchill hurried back (troubled with a slight cold) from a rainy Sicilian vacation to stand at his successor's side, the News Chronicle's Gallup poll showed a 3½% decline in Tory strength, and the Tories now leading Labor by a mere...
Rhinelander's successor has not yet been named, but it is understood that members of the Committee on General Education have presented possible choices to Dean Bundy for consideration...
Pierre Mendès-France nearly had it in his hand. Before he could grasp it, he was thrown out of office. Last week Mendès-France's successor. Premier Edgar Faure. closed his fingers on it: a settlement between France and Tunisia which, if carried out by men of good will, may bring an end to bloodshed and revolt in Tunisia, and diminish the despair and desperation in neighboring Morocco and Algeria...
...military coup, General Manuel Odria has ruled Peru as a fatherly, sometimes Big Brotherly dictator. Elected President in 1950 in a one-candidate race, Odria said recently that he intended to step down at the end of his six-year term, handing his office over to a constitutionally elected successor. Many of his countrymen doubted whether the strongman, only 57, really meant it, but last week, in a published interview with touring New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, Odria repeated his intention with notable firmness. He gave two reasons for wanting to hand over power, putting them, perhaps unintentionally...