Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regional PAC committees to put all possible pressure on the Senate. To Sidney Hillman, the election of last November had merely been a "preliminary victory." This was the real fight-to keep Henry Wallace in the Government, to make his philosophy prevail, to build him up as the logical successor of Franklin Roosevelt...
...Germans, kept up their diversionary offensive in Alsace-Lorraine. This show was commanded by a rough-&-tumble general named Hermann Balck, who had distinguished himself in the Nazi retreat up the Rhône valley in France, and who had been built up in German popular esteem as a successor to the late Erwin Rommel. When the U.S. Seventh Army held and shoved back the German bulge south of Bitche, Balck attacked at Rimling, on the west shoulder of the Bitche salient. He also renewed his attacks on the French from the Colmar pocket, drove to within ten miles...
...abiding & law-enforcing corps of more than 800 kids aged 14 to 18. Brogan developed his first leaders from the rival gang captains, reconciled at the first meeting to each other and to the law. The first chief is now at an Army Air Corps gunners' school, his successor in the Navy at San Diego. From their office in Bexar County court house, the Junior Deputies have...
...Belgium King Leopold surrendered, but Cardinal van Roey, heroic successor to heroic Cardinal Mercier, publicly forswore Catholic collaboration with "an oppressive regime" and forbade his priests to give the sacrament to anyone wearing the German uniform. Rather than let the Nazis prostitute the educational system, he closed the schools and universities. Throughout Europe, when the universities and the press and the writers and philosophers were silenced, "only the churches"-in the words of Albert Einstein-"stood squarely across the path of Hitler...
Officially, not much happened at last week's major league baseball meeting in Manhattan. The manpower squeeze, tightened further by new selective service needs in the 26-37 year-old group, precluded any important player deals. On the one big issue, appointment of a successor to the late High Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the club owners did nothing more alarming than to name a ways & means committee...