Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jawaharlal Nehru ended the suspense over his own future, which was what these practical politicians most wanted to hear. He would remain as Prime Minister for the time being, Nehru said, but he would not run in the January elections for the Congress Party presidency. His choice for his successor was a surprise: an austere, little-known lawyer named Uchhrangrai Navalshanker Dhebar, who happened to be in the room "by special invitation," though not a member of the working committee. He was a far cry from the politicians around...
...what was to become a lifelong journey devoted to la chasse au bonheur-the pursuit of happiness-and the first stop was Milan, where young Beyle served as a sublieutenant in Napoleon's army of occupation. Ambitious, hot-blooded Henri knew exactly what he wanted to be: "the successor of Molière" and "a seducer of women...
...political schizophrenia: sometimes he was a Duffman, sometimes he courted the P.M.A. By this year, he had retired, sulking, to his ivory tower in Harrisburg. Meanwhile, the P.M.A. was not what it used to be; Joe Grundy, 91, had retired after half a century of politics, and his successor, G. Mason Owlett, did not have the master's touch. When Owlett, the Blue Bell Boys and the other...
...week, her once-blonde hair a crisp iron grey, Carmelita Hinton. 64, briskly announced that she would step down as head of Putney July 1. She added: "I hate to leave, but I have so many things before me that I'm boiling over." Founder Hinton's successor: Admissions Director Henry Benson Rockwell, a personable Princetonian ('37) who came to Putney from Connecticut's Pomfret School three years...
...Republican party faces the prospect of an internal struggle for power. For it is questionable whether Dewey can hope to retain even a portion of his earlier political influence. A retiring governor ordinarily has little enough power in the state organization, even if he is able to select his successor. But a governor whose hand-picked candidate goes down to defeat is likely to find himself a political outcast. The result may be a dangerous power vacuum within the state party...