Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phillips Brooks House committee is expected to choose Hastie's successor in late April or early May. The PBH Association student cabinet will meet next week to consider recommending candidates to the faculty committee...
...political duties were almost as exacting as running a fleet. After three highly successful years of extending his country's benevolent paternalism to the Philippines, while deftly avoiding any appearance of internal meddling, Ambassador Spruance, 68, was ready to retire. Last week, the White House announced his successor: Michigan's ex-Senator Homer Ferguson...
...usual bicycle ride by which he unwinds at the end of a 6½day week, Presidential Assistant Robert Cutler, chief executive officer of the high-policymaking National Security Council, stayed at his desk last week to make up a thick folder of top-secret background information for his successor. The successor: Dillon Anderson, 48, who, like Cutler, is a lawyer, novelist and man of affairs...
...suits gathered in a waiting room in Coshocton, Ohio. They were members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, and they had just attended the funeral of 82-year-old William Green, their longtime chief. As the labor leaders waited for the train, Green's successor, George Meany, bluntly announced that he had chosen William Schnitzler, of the Bakery Workers Union, to be secretary-treasurer of the federation. Old Dan Tobin, president emeritus of the Teamsters Union, objected angrily. But Meany was unshaken; the election of Schnitzler, he said, would be held the next...
Herman Melville was in hock to his publishers and out of favor with his pubic. Moby Dick had provoked mixed reviews; its successor, Pierre, got savage ones. His readers wanted him to spin more of his early, popular South Sea romances such as Typee and Omoo. Exhausted and distraught, Melville developed neurotic mental tics and jumpy relatives made tentative moves to have him declared insane. His wife was soon to voice her special qualms in a letter to her mother: "Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around...