Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead it was Chiang who fell on Jan. 21, 1949. Promptly Chiang's successor, Acting President Li Tsung-jen, blatantly betrayed the bankruptcy of Nationalist China by trying to pull one of the most freakish double-steal plays in modern diplomacy. He proposed to the Soviet Union a pact promising elimination of U.S. influence in China-and simultaneously asked the U.S. for a statement of support to assist him in negotiation with Moscow. The State Department's one word for this was "incredible...
Straus maneuvered to postpone Eversharp's annual meeting while he tried to line up proxies against Webster. But last week, when the long-deferred meeting finally came, Straus could muster only about 200,000 votes against Webster's 715,379. As Straus's successor on Eversharp's board of directors, Webster brought in James D. Mooney, who had been recently booted out of Willys-Overland Motors' presidency as abruptly as Straus had been booted out of Eversharp...
...Atlantic pact and an arms program to back it up, but reserved decision on how much should be spent on arms. Dulles will serve until December 1. He told reporters that he had "no expectation" of becoming a candidate in the special November election to pick a successor for the remainder of Wagner's term, which expires...
...afar were also disturbed by the fact that Molotov was missing from the scene; but his absence was not presumed to imply disgrace, because his name appeared prominently on proclamations mourning Dimitrov. Thus Molotov remained first choice, with Malenkov a strong second, for the job of Stalin's successor, if & when Stalin, like Lenin and Dimitrov before him, becomes a semi-permanent thing...
After 22 years, 65-year-old Editor Balmer, a prolific fiction-writer himself, was moved upstairs last week to a job as "associate publisher." As his successor, Redbook hired a postgraduate of what is known in the trade as the "bust and thigh" school. The new editor: boyish, curly-haired Wade H. Nichols, 34, who has made Modern Screen the fastest-selling movie magazine on the newsstands...