Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perked up more when he got a brigadier general's star. In October 1945, he was pleased to be named Under Secretary, although he yearned for North Carolina. Charged chiefly with procurement, Royall did such a good job that he was marked as Patterson's successor...
...turbulent early years its leaders were able to report direct and literal heavenly guidance on even such mundane subjects as Illinois real estate. But a divine revelation in 1947 would amaze no man more than Mormonism's tall, white-bearded, 77-year-old President George Albert Smith, seventh successor to the prophet Joseph Smith, and the mortal instrument through which a heavenly message would be received...
...course in the war nearly all Poland's Jews were slaughtered. A new Polish bourgeoisie took over their little shops and businesses. Now, when an occasional Jew does come back from concentration camp or other exile and reclaims his place, his successor hates him. And every other member of the new Polish bourgeoisie fears that his predecessor might return from the grave...
...subjects. Then in 1884 Europe began its mad scramble for Africa. Portugal's empire builders sent out their own resident governor, and Pedro and all his kind became mere pensioners. Last week, with 700 other pilgrims from Portugal's now tatterdemalion empire, another King Dom Pedro, successor to an empty title, was in Rome to celebrate the canonization of Portugal's missionary saint, Joāo de Britto...
Heaman, Westcott's successor, had the Union as his sole responsibility until the late thirties, when he was designated to aid Westcott. He retained his old office in the Union, however, until assuming his promotion on June...