Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This settlement, of course, was only a minor irritation compared to the real problems of finance during the Revolution which were inherited by Hancock's successor. Treasurer Storer's faith and foresight led him to buy Continental Loan Certificates during these years of incredible inflation, and the Harvard history books single him out as one of the University's greatest heroes. Whether or not he saved the school from "hopeless bankruptcy," Storer's feat of raising the College's personal estate from $55,000 in 1777 to $182,000 some 16 years later was truly remarkable...
When the U.S. offered to take over the Vietnamese-army training last fall. French Commanding General Navarre denounced such interference. Navarre's successor, General Ely, is now quite agreeable to a U.S. training program under his own overall command. The U.S. plan, worked out by Major General John ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel, head of the U.S. Military Advisory Group...
...into practice in the designing of 14 buildings built on Illinois Tech's campus. Last week Illinois Tech put on display Mies's latest design: a new building to house his own department of architecture and the Institute of Design, founded in 1937 as a new-world successor to the Bauhaus...
Legend in the Kampongs. At his last press conference, Templer introduced his successor. He is capable Sir Donald McGillivray, 47, the Scottish diplomat who had been Templer's political deputy since 1952. McGillivray's appointment symbolized the changeover from a largely military to a mainly political emergency in Malaya. Said Templer generously: "I couldn't have done without...
...from which they had not been moved for a century. Throughout that time the French public had wandered freely in and out of the great palace where their "Father" the King, had dwelt "like a man in a glass house." Louis XIV had patiently endured this goldfish life. His successor. Louis XV who became King when he was only five years old, rebelled before he was out of his teens. He built into Versailles a private snuggery known as "the little apartments" (a scant 50 rooms and seven bathrooms), and when this, in turn, became too public, Louis chopped...