Word: successor
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...declaration. Twenty-seven states already use this controversial practice, usually relying on spot checks to discourage fraudulent declarations. Cohen has not yet issued a formal ruling to make the system nationwide, but he is likely to do so-and that would pose a serious problem for his successor, Robert Finch. If Finch were to reverse the ruling, he would surely enrage the liberals who have been arguing for the change for years. If he were to enforce it, he would anger critics of the welfare program who believe that the change would only encourage widespread fraud...
...George Smathers as their intermediary, the Nixon camp next sounded out Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington. Jackson expressed interest, but had a number of conditions. Among them was an agreement that Nixon would persuade Governor Dan Evans, a Republican, to appoint a Democrat as Jackson's successor...
Since the conditional resignation of Chief Justice Earl Warren six months ago, the question of naming his successor has become an imbroglio of partisan politics and personal enmities. Last week the controversy erupted once again...
Along with other founders of the dump-Johnson movement, Lowenstein helped launch the New Democratic Coalition (NDC) following this summer's bloodbath in Chicago. Although a successor to the McCarthy movement, the NDC is seeking a wider, more impressive base of support than McCarthy ever did, and its goal is nothing less than the take-over of the Democratic Party...
...supported his wife and two sons on small family savings and welfare checks. Six months later, they left for a year in Europe, courtesy of a $5,000 Guggenheim fellowship. Temporary terms as poet-in-residence at Reed, San Fernando Valley State and Wisconsin, and as successor to Stephen Spender as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, have occupied him since...