Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry L. Stimson, able, ancient (77) Secretary of War, has planned to retire, may drop out soon after V-E day. His successor: question mark, so far as political gossip went. One gleam in Washington eyes: General George Catlett Marshall, with General Eisenhower the new Chief of Staff...
Jimmy Byrnes had stayed in Washington an extra day to attend the quiet ceremony. At Fred Vinson's request there were no pictures. When it was over, Byrnes shook hands with his successor, walked wearily out of the White House to go back to the practice of law in his home town-Spartanburg. S.C.-and in Washington...
...patient, meanwhile, did not seem sure which doctor she preferred. In general the leftist press regretted M. Mendès-France's departure. But it turned a not unhopeful face toward his successor. Said the resistance organ, Front National: "Your turn now, M. Pleven, to see what you can do. ... To you our hand...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who had twice been at the top of the Wehrmacht command ladder in the west, went down again last week-and this time probably out. His successor: bulldog-faced Field Marshal Albert Kesselring...
...Woolton's successor will, it appears, soon have to reduce these amounts further. With supplies of meat and cheese still shrinking in the U.S., and new demands coming from the liberated countries, the news was broken to Britons this week that U.S. meat exports to Britain would be cut from 207 million lbs. to 25 million...