Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Messersmith's probable successor was smooth, amiable James Bruce, 54, vice president of the National Dairy Products Corp. Son of Maryland's onetime Democratic Senator, Princeton-mate of Navy Secretary James Forrestal, James Bruce was no trained diplomat. Aside from a short tour as assistant military attache in Rome, and as special representative in Montenegro for the Versailles peace conference, he had stuck to banking and finance...
Next day, retiring President-General Mrs. Julius Young Talmadge fondly embraced her successor (see cut) and the busy week was over. Sighed a happy page: "It was just as if a peace had descended over the auditorium-just like an Amen...
...however, impressed with the man's loneliness. He never eats with anyone. How different from our Lord, whose vicar he claims to be, and of whom we read that He ate even with publicans and sinners! He is not married. How different from the Apostle Peter, whose successor the Pope pretends to be, and who, like other Apostles, had a wife and a mother-in-law, the latter being healed of a fever by our Lord! The humblest Protestant preacher would not exchange positions with the head of the Roman Catholic Church...
...life fighting off creditors, plotting against the public peace, burying his son,* suffering from attacks of carbuncles that sometimes covered him from head to foot, grinding away at economics so that he could "prove" (in Capital) that capitalism was inevitably doomed and that socialism was its inevitable successor, lashing his enemies with invective sometimes worthy of an Old Testament prophet and sometimes unprintable. When he was buried in a cemetery in Highgate, London, only eight friends were at the grave...
...like to do a play next." T.S. Eliot '10 said yesterday afternoon following an hour's reading of his poetry to an overflow audience of about 1700 in Sanders Theatre. The drama, his first work since "Four Quartets," will be a "sort of successor to 'Family Reunion,' " he said...