Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Langdell's successor was James B. Ames, who carried on in the traditions of his predecessor. With Ames at the helm, the Law School saw another major addition to its physical plant with the erection of Langdell Hall...
Sometimes the world that survives him thinks of George, father of the Duke, as an amiable successor to the gay and worldly Edward VII, and of his mother, Queen Mary, as the ruler of the family. But the Duke describes his late father as a stern sea dog, a domestic martinet who lived on a clockwork schedule and refused to let David go to public (private) schools lest they teach him bad habits. (" 'The Navy will teach him all that he needs to know...
...President did have a surprise up his sleeve in his choice of a successor for Bradley. The man he named to head the Veterans Administration was Carl R. Gray Jr., 58, hearty, joke-loving vice president of the Chicago & North Western Railway Co. Railroader Gray, whose late father was president of the Union Pacific, is a crack organizer who, as a red-tape-hating general in World War II, won the high respect of both Eisenhower and Omar Bradley for his ability to push rail lines into one side of a European town almost before German forces could retreat...
...attached to U. S. economic aid, turned around, ruefully contemplated a starving nation pockmarked by 36,000 Communist cells, and promptly resigned. His government had failed in every political and economic crisis. France was on the verge of a civil war that would preclude any American aid. Ramadier's successor, ex-finance minister Robert Schuman, is charged with an immense task--that of tramping Communism under a vigorous and potent democracy. His success or failure might well set the future pattern of current American plans to choke off Russian expansion, for France is the keystone in the Marshall Plan...
Dalton's successor, Sir Stafford ("The Brain") Cripps, now at the pinnacle of his power, has more rigorous ideas than Dalton on the fiscal policy of a Socialist Government (TIME, Nov. 10). The first Cripps budget, to be presented in April, may contain more drastic provisions...