Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago White Sox out of the wilderness of the American League's second division in 1951 and has kept them in third place ever since, was named general manager and field manager of the moulting Orioles (née the St. Louis Browns). Richards' successor in, Chicago: mild Marty ("Mr. Shortstop'') Marion, who flopped with the Browns...
Last January, Dewey ordered a series of seven monthly public-opinion polls. How would he run against Averell Harriman, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Robert Wagner Jr.? Far more important, how would Irving Ives-the only man Dewey had even considered as his successor-do against the three most likely Democratic candidates? The polls told Dewey what he wanted to know: either Ives or he could win over any Democratic opposition. In some of the surveys Ives ran even better than Dewey...
...Haitian sugar-cane cutters, Paulino's name comes up. In payment for such chores Trujillo let Paulino wrap his blimplike belly in the uniform of an honorary major general and play the role of Despot No. 2. Inevitably, No. 2 got to thinking of himself as a likely successor. But that was not to be. Last week Anselmo Paulino was a broken man, stripped of his influential office and his beloved uniform, out of power and under arrest...
...Sheil. 66, last week announced his resignation as head of the Catholic Youth Organization, a group which he founded 24 years ago, and which now has some 5,000,000 members. No reason was given by Sheil or by Samuel Cardinal Stritch, who announced that Shell's successor would be Monsignor Edward J. Kelly, long active in the C.Y.O. But speculation inevitably reverted to Bishop Sheil's famed blast at Senator Joseph McCarthy last April, which antagonized many Roman Catholic laymen and clergy. Most widely heard explanation: Sheil may have been urged by his superiors to be more...
...office, private dining room, private conference room (which Ickes sometimes used as his bedroom) and private bathroom (where Ickes used to wipe his feet happily on a bath mat emblazoned with the Republican elephant). In Ickes' enormous room, at Ickes' great, gleaming desk, there now sits a successor who cares nothing for mussolinian magnificence: Douglas McKay, 61, veteran Chevrolet dealer -"the old car peddler," he calls himself-from Salem...