Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paulo Red Cross worker recently investigated the leprosaria, substantiated many of the chronic complaints, and caused the firing of leprosarium director Dr. Sales Gomes. Likely result of the new hubbub: the sacking of his successor, Dr. Nelson de Campos...
...experiences of a bomber and its crew, may be used as an example of the "boy around the corner" sort of documentary. On an even more fictionized plane, and with a perhaps greater subjective appeal, take a look at Noel Coward's "In Which We Serve" and its khaki successor, David Nivens' "The Way Ahead...
...search for a successor had been started back in 1941. At that time a Senatorial investigation had put Hollywood on the worst spot in its history, yet Hays came up with no aggressive ideas to beat off the attack. The industry, realizing that the chips were down, hired the late, great Wendell Lewis Willkie as defense counsel. Willkie was eminently successful. Hays, realizing that he was on the skids, tried to save the job he had held since the office was founded in 1922. But last June his authority fell completely when Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. became the first major...
When he abdicated, Hays' successor to the reported $200,000-a-year job had long since been chosen. He was the darling of U.S. free enterprise: handsome, grinny Eric Allen Johnston, 48. He will go to work immediately, but will keep his job as President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce until...
...recommend the appointment of my grandson, Henry Ford II, as my successor." The board, controlled lock, stock & proxies by old Henry, considered the "recommendation," obediently upped Young Henry, 28, from executive vice president to president...