Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter's Heir. How, Lippmann wondered, could the Administration ever have developed such "an unworkable policy?" He believed it was "because Mr. X has neglected even to mention the fact that the Soviet Union is the successor of the Russian Empire and that Stalin is not only the heir of Marx and Lenin but of Peter the Great and the Czars of all the Russias...
...Himself a member of the Party's Central Committee, the boss of one of its most important branches, he was close to the Soviet Union's mightiest. But it was Stalin who ordered the inquisition, and Politburo Member Andrei Zhdanov, sometimes mentioned as Stalin's probable successor, who carried it out. It was the nearest thing to a public airing of Politburo squabbling since the great purge trials a decade...
...Manhattan District and its successor, the Atomic Energy Commission, which have kept a close watch on employees, are morally certain that there have been only two deaths from radioactivity in the history of the project: those of Physicists Louis A. Slotin and Harry K. Daghlian, who died from accidental exposure to a powerful beam of neutrons and gamma rays last year (TIME, June...
...Years. He was re-elected twice-the last time after explaining that he proposed to go on active duty in the Navy almost immediately. (He has run in five elections in his life, won them all.) To the lieutenant governorship, Minnesota gladly voted his choice for a successor, Edward Thye, now U.S. Senator from...
Dieo!. Elliott Carr Cutler, 59, one of the nation's top heart and brain surgeons, a wartime brigadier general, successor to the late, famed Harvey Gushing as Moseley Professor at Harvard Medical School; of cancer; in Brookline, Mass...