Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fingers Crossed. U.S. Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, in Chungking only a few weeks as "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's successor, sized up the situation as serious but not irreparable. Said Wedemeyer: the Japanese are using a well-trained, well-equipped army in China led by "a very able commander" with the intention of fighting the war in Asia rather than on Japan's home soil. Nevertheless, he predicted that the Japanese could be defeated within a year after victory over Germany. The U.S., said he, would concentrate on supply for Chinese troops, continue air support for the Chinese...
Upset. Perhaps the Senate's biggest upset was the defeat of Pennsylvania's gladhanding, snow-crested "Puddler Jim" Davis, 71, member of the Moose, Secretary of Labor under Herbert Hoover and a fixture on the public payroll since 1921. His successor, who rode the Roosevelt wind across Pennsylvania, is an all but unknown Philadelphia Democrat, 200-lb. Francis J. Myers, 42, who has served three plodding terms in the House...
...Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's successor as commander of U.S. forces in China, Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, could say nothing more hopeful than that the situation was unfavorable, "but not irretrievable...
...bigoted because it reveals that a Catholic clergyman is capable of sin? If the Church in the archdiocese of San Francisco is so decrepit that it will totter if it becomes known that one of its priests woos John Barleycorn, Pope Pius would do well to appoint a capable successor to Archbishop Mitty...
...overall news was the defeat of Republican isolationism and the re-elections of Republicans with non-isolationist or liberal record. In New York, to the nation's delight, down went rabid anti-Roosevelt isolationist Hamilton Fish, after 24 years in Congress. His successor: liberal Augustus W. Bennet, 47, Newburgh lawyer. Another surprise was the defeat of the Chicago Tribune's alter ego, isolationist stalwart Stephen A. Day. Against Day and the odds, intelligent, serious Emily Taft Douglas, wife of a Chicago economics professor (now in the Marines) won her first try at big-time politics. Rednecked Marine Colonel...