Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza forcibly knocked over the Government of his too-independent successor, President Leonardo Argüello (TIME, June 9), the U.S., along with the other nations of the hemisphere, was presented with a neat dilemma. To recognize Somoza's puppet regime would be to condone an irresponsible and undemocratic coup. To refuse to recognize him would mean a departure from the general diplomatic practice of recognizing any government that is clearly in power and that promises to live up to its international obligations...
...Named as his successor: Businessman James Bruce (TIME, June...
When a professionally partisan trial lawyer such as Manhattan's Lloyd Paul Stryker turns biographer, he also turns defense counsel. His Andrew Johnson was a passionate defense of Lincoln's maligned successor in which spleen ran as deep as fact. Now in For the Defense he still writes like a lawyer on retainer, but his defense is framed in frank hero worship. The hero: Thomas Erskine, great 18th Century English barrister and Whig Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of George...
...years ago the ten colleges in the Pacific Coast Conference hired a former FBI agent to keep their football "pure." But onetime G-Man Edwin Atherton, though he ruled some 50 players ineligible, never took the kind of step his successor, Victor O. Schmidt, did. Schmidt sleuthed campuses, found evidence that coaches and alumni were breaking rules in entertaining and recruiting star high-school athletes for conference teams. He thereupon fined every college in the conference last week. Oregon State College got off lightest: its fine was $25. The biggest was slapped on the best team: U.C.L.A., the conference champion...
...successor to veteran Editor Percy Cole, another onetime newsman, Tom O'Donoghue will boss a staff of 18 crack (180 words per min. or better) shorthand reporters. They work in pairs-15 minutes at a stretch-in the curtained press gallery above the Speaker's chair. Sometimes Hansard gets things wrong, but it's official, even so, and its bound volumes can be quoted in a court of law. Hansard never identifies a man's party, only his district: he is supposedly representing his entire constituency. When Emanuel Shinwell slapped Commander Bower in 1938 for saying...