Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Task Force D. Assistant Prosecutor Lieut. Harris Whitney, U.S.N., took up the case of scar-faced Ernst Kaltenbrunner, successor to bloody Hangman Reinhard Heydrich as the Gestapo's No. 2 man. Sample charges: ordering the murder of civilians in occupied countries, devising a system for selecting gas-chamber candidates, encouraging the lynching of Allied airmen...
Arkansas-born John Steelman, sociologist and practical conciliator, is a comparative newcomer to high presidential councils. A once potent influence in the Labor Department, he had been called on from time to time by Franklin Roosevelt. But Steelman has become much closer to F.D.R.'s successor. He attends the "Kitchen Cabinet's" daily 9 a.m. meetings with the President, is in a better position to advise him than Labor Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach. It was significant that Steelman, not Lew Schwellenbach, went on the boat ride...
...race to furnish a successor to the Douglas DC-3, workhorse of the airlines. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. last week got off to a flying start. It pocketed an order from American Airlines for 100 of its new Model 2405, largest number of planes a single airline has ever ordered at one time. Price...
...many a Washington politico guessed that the President's advocacy of the plan would hasten his departure from office. But whether Forrestal returned to private life after the holidays, or stayed on until the merger fight was finished, sources close to the White House were confident that his successor had been picked...
Immediately after his election President Renner stepped over to Vienna's Presidential Building to swear in his successor as Chancellor, Leopold Figl, head of the Volkspartei. He also swore in the Figl Cabinet-as amended...