Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood at the bridges, guarded the cities, gallantly did everything the manuals said to do. Many of them knew how to hunt the fox, shoot grouse, stalk tigers; but none of them had been hunted by animals before. They were confused by this enemy, and General Pownall's successor (who was secretly appointed early this week*) would have the job of unconfusing them, of inventing countermeasures, of applying them in desperate haste...
...jurisdiction of the War Department, said Mr. Lippmann. "The facts of the situation, and the morale of the people require lucid and authoritative commands." Mrs. Roosevelt should stop confusing everyone by being a minor official in her husband's Government. Mr. LaGuardia "should resign as soon as his successor can be found and installed in the office." Indications were that Mr. Roosevelt thought so too, was getting ready to pluck the Little Flower from...
...With Germany we step many degrees downward and reach the lowest possible depths," said Joseph Ernest Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines and successor to Belgium's late great Cardinal Mercier, in a speech at Wavre-Notre Dame. "We have a duty of conscience to combat and to strive for the defeat of these dangers. . . . Reason and good sense both direct us towards confidence, towards resistance...
Today, after 20 years under Miss Thomas' easier-going successor, Marion Edwards Park, Bryn Mawr has College Entrance Boards instead of special exams, written tests in languages (Spanish and Italian are now permitted) instead of the dread "orals." But Bryn Mawr is still an intellectual institution; Dr. Park, like Dr. Thomas, believed that "The country needs good minds...
...Lapointe saw Canada become embittered, intolerant, nearly fly apart over the issue of conscription, which French Canada opposed. He never altered his own opposition to it. In 1919 he ran into the bluntest fact in Canadian politics when, as the logical successor to the late, great Sir Wilfred Laurier, he was kept from the Liberal Party leadership by a deal designed to prevent another Catholic French Canadian from becoming Prime Minister. To break the Party stalemate he threw his support to the then untried William Lyon Mackenzie King in a deal of his own. For French Canada he retained special...