Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pseudonym of the late social reporter Maury H. B. Paul, now used by his successor, Eve Brown...
...Catholics sometimes forget that His Holiness the Pope, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Sovereign of Vatican City, and Servant of the Servants of God, is also the Bishop of Rome. Last week the Bishop of Rome had a local problem on his hands: a "serious shortage" of priests in the Eternal City. Reason: twelve of Rome's some 600 priests died last year, only six new ones were ordained. Sadly the Bishop of Rome ordered several of the city...
...Wavell's appointment was announced. Down in the plains, where the hot summer wind, the loo, pushed the mercury toward an unendurable 120°, Indian commentators wrote bitterly that Linlithgow had ruled through a period of turmoil unsurpassed since the mutiny of 1857. They had expected as his successor a hardheaded, reactionary politician, while hoping, faintly, for a statesman with "a fresh approach to the Indian problem...
...Spencer, his successor, is as modest as he is short. But his work in proving the tick transmission of deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever (in some places it kills nine out of ten) and developing a protective vaccine has brought him a public reputation. He was idealized as the hero of Lloyd Douglas' novel. Green Light-moviegoers know him as the man (Errol Flynn) who went into the Rockies after ticks. Since 1938, as assistant director of the Cancer Institute, he has done much spadework on what heat, radium and cancer-causing substances do to animals...
...said New York City's Herald Tribune last week. The "great emotion" soared in French hearts when General Charles de Gaulle put a name to the future: the Fourth Republic, successor to the unhappy Third (1870-1940). It might be months before the nations would accord the new Republic formal recognition (at week's end the U.S. and Britain had still not recognized formally the new French Committee of National Liberation as trustee for France), but already Frenchmen at home and abroad looked up. Said De Gaulle: "Fight with me and we will establish French sovereignty; fight with...