Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.F.L. and laid the foundation of a rival C.I.O. In the tarnished ballroom of the Chelsea Hotel, John had given the carpenters' Bill Hutcheson a punch on the jaw (1935). In the same room, in 1940, John resigned the presidency of C.I.O. and Phil Murray mournfully became his successor. Murray had no reason now to feel any happier about...
Reshevsky's victory last week in Manhattan earned him a sure berth as a U.S. representative in next year's world tournament to determine a successor to the late Alexander Alekhine.* The favorites will be the Russians, who walloped Reshevsky and his fellow Americans in a recent match in Moscow...
Meanwhile it was announced that the probable successor to Swan in February for the head manager's post will be Sumner Feldberg...
...Moscow's flag-bedecked Bolshoi Theater the keynote address of the anniversary was delivered by the man whom many think Stalin has picked as his successor: swart, stocky Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, 50. He is secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and is also chairman of the Supreme Soviet (Russian parliament), boss of Leningrad, colonel-general in the Russian Army and member of the potent, 14-man Politburo...
Gruber is in this country at present to negotiate possible admission of Austria into the United Nations. A leader in the underground in Tyrol during the war, he now heads the liberal wing of the Catholic Peoples Party in Austria and has been mentioned as successor to the present Chancellor. He was prominent in the work of the Paris Peace Conference, where the settlement of the minority problem in Tyrol was hailed by General Smuts as the "only successful arrangement which came out of the Conference." His work in the United States has been met with partial success already, with...