Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington looked for the hidden significance of the Dewey visit. As a former New York Governor, Tom Dewey could hardly come out formally against Rockefeller, his incumbent successor. But he is still the Vice President's longtime friend and sometime political cicerone. Best Washington analysis: Dewey's visit was an unofficial but undisguised blessing for Dick Nixon and his candidacy...
...miners, John L. Lewis, two months short of 80, summed up his life's, work in what were his least controversial words. "I shall hope," he said simply, "that each of you will believe that through the years I have been faithful to your interests." Lewis' successor as U.M.W. president for the final year of his four-year term: Mild, humorous Vice President Thomas Kennedy, 72, a miner since 1900, onetime Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1935-39), who has lived and worked faithfully for 40 years in John L.'s massive shadow...
When the younger Weld was in the same year expelled from the College on two counts of local burglary, and his departure solemnized by a personal whipping from President Dunster, no successor to the scholarship was designated, and the gift became merged with general College funds...
...knew he wouldn't be Eliot's choice for a successor, but then he knew as well that Eliot wasn't doing the choosing. In fact, the chairman of the selection committee asked to consider 24 possible names later reported, "It took about one look at the list to make it clear that the only real candidate was A. Lawrence Lowell." A scant two weeks later, Lowell's election had been confirmed by both the Corporation and the Overseers...
...Louisiana politics. Barred by law from succeeding himself and harried by doctors as he was chased in and out of mental hospitals (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Ole Earl, 64, tried to get himself nominated as next Lieutenant Governor in the free-for-all primary, put a hand-picked successor in as Governor. He cagily passed a bill to change the Democratic primary date from traditional Tuesday to work-free Saturday, thus tried to lure all the Long-loving back-country people down to the voting machines. But even the backwoods had seen enough; neither Earl nor his candidate...