Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of men found "safe & well" was Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, hero of Bataan and successor to MacArthur. He was found in a Manchuria prison camp near Mukden...
...Virginny last week. Snuffing out some leftist opposition, it safely assured its own man, Lieut. Governor William Munford Tuck, 48, of getting the Governor's chair. Thus, if ailing Senator Carter Glass, 87-who has not answered a roll-call in three years-retires or dies, his successor will be a hand-picked Byrdman...
...their guesses about a successor to the tall, soldierly Earl of Athlone, 71, few Canadians had included the onetime director of the grim Italian campaign (and of the U.S. Eighth Army). Some, particularly French Canadians, wanted to break with tradition and have a Canadian named for the job. They thought that Canada's sovereignty would thus be more clearly demonstrated. Some of the British-born appointees, they thought, had been oppressively overstuffed. Others, particularly the more Anglophile Canadians, felt that another of royal blood should succeed Athlone, who is King George VI's uncle. Such a selection would...
Tribute & Applause. The Fascists did their best to make a great musician of Pietro Mascagni, and he cooperated. In 1926, he was appointed Arturo Toscanini's successor as director of Milan's La Scala. He obliged by composing a Hymn of Labor. The obedient Fascist press hailed his 1935 opera Nero, a musical tribute to Mussolini's Italy, but it flopped anyway...
...history have the hopes and resolves of people and their authority among nations been so summed up in a single commanding personality. ... In the sense that he has been during the war years a temporal embodiment to his age of eternal England, Winston Churchill can have no successor. . . ." Said Labor's Daily Herald: "There is not the slightest doubt that gratitude to Churchill as a war leader, admiration for his genius, and reverence for his courage is shared by every party and every social class...