Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong interests were, in the main, legacies from her husband, Thaddeus Horatius Caraway, famed for his sharp nose and waspish tongue in Senate investigations. These were flood control, safety in commercial aviation and legislation against lobbies. At his death in 1931, Arkansas politicians could not agree on a successor; Mrs. Caraway was appointed to her husband's office. The next year Huey Long, eager to extend his political domain, brought his sound trucks into Arkansas and helped "the poor little widow lady" to become the first woman elected a U.S. Senator.* Thereafter, Huey Long could usually count on Senator...
...Cardinals now has only 42 members, the fewest in a century. Full strength is 70, the number set in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V to commemorate the 70 elders of Moses. But there are always at least half a dozen "vacant hats" so that when a Pope dies his successor may make some immediate appointments...
...July 3), had been dropped from the Cabinet. But it was not an out-&-out sacking. Shimada will keep his other job as Chief of Naval Staff, thus be able to devote full time to finding tactical remedies for the Empire's critical plight in the Pacific. His successor as Naval Minister: Admiral Naokuni Nomura,* expert in submarine and torpedo techniques...
...Successor. To take McNair's job on the home front came rugged, crusty old (65) Lieut. General Ben Lear. He had held the job before. In 1943 Whitey McNair made such a close-up inspection of U.S. troops in action on the African front that he was hit by German shell fragments, briefly hospitalized...
...deep, almost fierce devotion to this country and its democratic institutions." For him "America was liberty." Later, in the I.L.G.W.U. 's long civil war of right wing v. left wing, Schlesinger fell a political victim to the Communists, died a "broken man." Morris Sigman, Schlesinger's successor as president of the I.L.G.W.U. Sigman was "a real proletarian, a type rare among labor leaders." He "fought Communist disruption on the left and at the same time undertook to clean up some of the political machines on his own side of the fence. . . . This relentless honesty...