Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successor, President Ismet Inönü promptly appointed a man whose similar leanings are not taken for granted: robust, greying Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu (rhymes with "marrow jaw glue"), 52, who in his time has held Turkey's portfolios of Finance, Justice, Interior and Education, who has helped President Inönüü plot and steer Turkey's present course. Hearty, bull-voiced Saracoglu sports a Hitler-style mustache and has often been suspected of Axis sympathies...
Chungking said: As a successor to the A.V.G. we welcome the regular American Air Force. It, no doubt, will show the same brave mastery of machines in air combat...
...first paid president it ever had. It will not get another-at least not for a good long while. Main reason (outside of "economy"'): burly, eupeptic Banker George Peters Rea, 47, has done such a good job that there is virtually no need for a full-time successor, unless & until the biggest job of all-more business-is licked. And it takes more than a paid president to increase trading in stocks & bonds...
...nonpaid successor at the Curb is Curb Chairman Fred Gushing Moffatt, whose longtime brokerage business has earned him enough so that he can afford to work for nothing for a while...
...beam soon vanished. The Government as successor of G. P. McN. agreed to arbitration. At hearings in Chicago during May and June some amazing figures came out: under McNear's "day's work for a day's pay," T.P. & W.'s wage bill in April was $18,478. The Office of Defense Transportation figured out that under Brotherhood rules the bill would have been $56,711. Badly jolted by this noncooperative ODT attitude, the Brotherhoods finally said their wage bill would have been $31,000 (still 70% over McNear's figure). The Government-appointed arbitrator...