Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betancourt and Gallegos had been exiles in the days of tyrannical dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. They had returned to Venezuela to help prod President Eleázar López Contreras along the path of measured democracy. For a time they had gotten along with his successor, Medina. But they had broken with Medina when he failed 1) to tackle the nation's economic problems squarely, 2) to change the constitution so that the President could be elected by direct suffrage...
...first time since Franklin Roosevelt's death, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt last week broke her silence on what she thinks of his successor's foreign policies. Items: she does not like President Truman's thinking about the atomic bomb secret, thinks that Secretary of State James F. Byrnes used inept tactics at the Council of Foreign Ministers...
...Roosevelt revolution in embryo. The social forces that broke the Federalists and the power of the "mercantile classes" and made Old Hickory President were the same kind of forces that made the New Deal powerful. (The COMMON MAN reversed his field when Old Hickory bequeathed him an executive successor in the form of Martin Van Buren, the Harry S. Truman of the time...
Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. said: "All good things must come to an end. . . ." Erect and sad, he handed his beloved Third Army flag to his successor in command, Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott Jr., a General who had fought with his mouth closed. The band played Auld Lang Syne. Some 400 soldiers and WACs, also erect and sad, watched him march stiffly away...
...fathers of the Holy Cross, whose rules require that they should eat and live for the most part separately from the world, coming from seclusion only to perform certain tasks. When Father Sill's broken health forced him to retire, Holy Cross provided Kent with a successor in young, studious Father William Scott Chalmers, but in 1943 decided to hand grownup, self-sufficient Kent over to its trustees. Father Chalmers, by special permission, stayed on as headmaster. Father Chalmers soon discovered the impossibility of fitting his Order's cloistered rules to his job as a busy headmaster...