Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third of Brazil's great triumvirate (the others: President Getulio Vargas, Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha), Goes Monteiro was a leader, with Vargas and Aranha, of the 1930 revolution. In 1931 he was appointed Minister of War. He became Brazil's Chief of Staff in 1937. His successor, General Eduardo Guedes Alcoforado, is neither so astute nor so politically ambitious as Goes Monteiro. The Brazilian Army, which wants to fight, and the increasingly belligerent Brazilian people hoped that General Alcoforado would lead them soon, somewhere, into contact with the Axis, and that he would be as good a soldier...
...Successor to the old Union Committee, which handled most Freshman social arranging in the past, the Class Committee will contain eight men drawn from each of the dormitories in the Yard, who will serve short terms as members of the Student Council. Under the new plan. Freshman representatives in the Council will be arbitrarily selected in any way which seems best at the time...
When Condè Nast died (TiME, Sept. 28), his last wish was to name his successor. Last week Condè Nast Publications' board of directors gladly confirmed his choice: 42-year-old Iva Sergei Voidato Patcèvitch, Nast's executive assistant since 1928. Conde Nast editors remain unchanged...
...straight-faced OWI press release last week was the first public sign of a war production scandal that has long seethed underground in Washington. The brief announcement said only that Colonel Charles R. Baxter of Army Ordnance had been made Chief of a new Materials Redistribution Branch of WPB, successor to the Inventory & Requisitioning Branch. But it meant that after ten wasted months the U.S. was finally going to do something about frustrated freight...
...prove that his promotion was no mistake, Harvey displayed an unexpected talent in the afternoon practice drill when he answered a call for a place-kicker and promptly lofted his first boot well into the end zone. A little more of that and he may prove a successor to Hank Vander Eb as a specialty...