Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gene Talmadge's death set off one of the biggest, oddest political rows in U.S. history. The new Georgia constitution provided no clear-cut method of determining his successor. Backers of incumbent Governor Arnall believed that he should continue in office, even though he was constitutionally barred from a second candidacy, and had not run in 1946. Others wanted the General Assembly to choose between the two highest general election write-in candidates: James V. Carmichael and Talmadge's son, Herman (pronounced Hummon to rhyme with summon). Still others tried to make a case for M. E. Thompson...
Washington diplomatic circles, particularly the British, turned an inquisitive eye on the man who was about to assume America's top assignment in foreign diplomacy-the successor to Thomas Pinckney, John Jay, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, James Russell Lowell, John Hay et al. Who was O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner...
Noting Zhdanov's new duties and honors, the handicappers who try to figure who will win the race as Stalin's successor now believe that Zhdanov is back in form, after a severe strain to his reputation in the Finnish war; they rate Zhdanov just after Molotov, which is very good going for a man who 15 years ago was so little known in Communist politics that he did not even get his name in the Soviet Encyclopedia...
Last week 71-year-old Dr. Wood decided that "thirty-five years of living with 2,000 women is all any man is entitled to. . . ."As his successor, Stephens curators picked popular Homer Price Rainey, 50, ousted president of the University of Texas and recently defeated candidate for governor of Texas. Rainey intends to spend six months at Stephens before he says what he thinks about...
Bruce Bliven had been on the editorial board of the leftward-looking New Republic for 23 years, and the magazine's actual editor for 16 of them. Last week he assumed the title of Editorial Director, waited in his 15th-floor Manhattan office for his successor to show up. The new boss came in three hours late. Said Bliven: "Hello, Henry. Come on in and I'll show you your office." Henry Wallace, politician-at-large, had acquired a lever (circ. 45,000) and a place to stand, and would now try to move the world...