Word: successors
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Bull Moosers. The best try was made by the Progressives of 1912. Ex-President Teddy Roosevelt thought better of his resolution not to seek a third term, unlimbered his big stick and set out after the scalp of his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. Declaring that he "felt like a bull moose," Roosevelt shrilly attacked "moneyed privilege" and "special interests," polled 4,126,020 popular and 88 electoral votes to Taft's 3,483,922 popular and eight electoral. But Democrat Woodrow Wilson, with a popular vote of 6,286,214-less than Taft and Roosevelt combined-walked...
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Right Bower. As Ed's successor, the convention picked shaggy-browed Allan Kline, 52, of Iowa, who has long been Ed's right bower and the Farm Bureau's vice president for two years. An enthusiastic student of philosophy, economics and history, Kline is a hog farmer with a distaste for colloquialisms. He has a town house in Des Moines and a farm in Benton County which boasts a swimming pool, tennis court, and gaited horses. He is an independent Republican. Deliberate and shrewd, Kline believes in a relatively low level of parity and a thriving foreign...
British Labor promptly hit back. Arthur Deakin, Ernie Bevin's successor as head of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,250,000 members), called on British Labor to oust Communists from their high councils*: "The activities of the Communists within the trade unions are mainly directed to propagating their political faith. . . . We cannot afford to allow the Communists' attempted infiltration into and domination of the trade unions to succeed...
...jury indictments against the known killers. He called a meeting at the courthouse, attended by 75 or 100 citizens, all of whom were afraid to testify. Unexpectedly, a letter came from William H. ("Billy the Kid") Bonney, offering to talk: he had seen Murphy partisans kill Tunstall's successor. Wallace promised Billy immunity, agreed to meet him at 9 p.m. at the home of a Tunstall man. "The door swung slowly open, and there stood the Kid, a Winchester in his right hand and a revolver in his left. He was a mere boy in years and appearance-nineteen...