Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least, the air arm is now an air army, comparable to the ground army. To head his staff, "Hap" Arnold, the Chief of the Army, picked Brigadier General Carl M. Spaatz, who last week was upped to two stars and command of the Combat Command. "Tooey" Spaatz's successor as Chief of Air Staff, appointed last week, is Major General Millard F. Harmon, studious, West Point-trained onetime-cavalryman and pursuit pilot...
This Sunday Chile goes to the polls to choose a successor to late President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, who died last November. The choice will be between two candidates although the eleven top parties have repeatedly suggested candidates, reneged on them, nominated them, withdrawn them, made alliances, broken them, made dozens of public and private deals. Now, however, the pot has simmered down and only two strong candidates are left...
...94th successor to St. Augustine will retire March...
...times are not ordinary. . . . When this war is over great tasks of reconstruction must await the Church as well as the State. Preparation for these tasks must begin now." In emphasizing the need for post-war reconstruction, Dr. Lang clearly implied that his personal choice as a successor is the man who is probably the world's leading exponent of Christian social reconstruction: portly, brilliant, 60-year-old William Temple, Archbishop of York and second-ranking Anglican prelate...
Whoever his successor is, Dr. Lang will almost certainly be the last archbishop of his kind (just as he is the first unmarried Primate since the Reformation). The 20th Century does not breed his type of courtier-bishop. Since he first caught Queen Victoria's eye in 1896 with his tactful eloquence and for being "so human," he has been the friend and confidant of the royal family-except for Edward VIII, who called him a "sanctimonious humbug." He also is strong-willed and not afraid to speak his mind, even went to the unpopular extreme of defending...