Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope that some men who are popular with the miners and workers will not be sacrificed to please the Tories and Big Business." But when he saw that Attlee's hand was not to be stayed, Horner knuckled under: "We will work with Mr. Gaitskell [Shinwell's successor] as we have done with Mr. Shinwell...
...plaques with the names of the President and his ministers. ... I have projected a Five-Year Plan which will continue possibly for ten or 15 years, and I have done it preconceivedly, because I have no interest in installing any plaques, but I have to leave it to my successor and he will have no other choice but to continue...
...scapegoat for the Pentagon's brass hats, easy prey for congressional busybodies making overseas inspection tours. No pleas, no threats will budge Dennis: he is as adamantine of mind as he is agonized of soul. Eventually he is relieved of his command. But at the very end, his successor is won over to his policy...
With these things in mind, Morgenthau asked the President whom he was considering as Douglas' successor. "He took my breath away by saying, 'What do you think of Tom Corcoran? . . .' This seemed to me absolutely out of the question. Tom Corcoran was a first-class lawyer, a first-class political operator, a first-class accordion player...
Coach Havens has patiently welded a team from a squad containing men from various high schools, who have learned the fundamentals under numerous different systems, and has taught several novices. He took over the coaching job as the immediate successor to Harlow and has mentored the Green Terror teams since 1934, with the exception of his time out in the service of his country...