Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three days, the tax deadlock was broken. The Governor's compromise had won. Harold Stassen drank a glass of milk in celebration. To the Governor's office came tall, husky Lieut. Governor Ed Thye (pronounced "thigh"), Harold Stassen's hand-picked successor. Said Ed Thye: "Governor, if you hadn't staked all your chips on me, I wouldn't be where I am today, and I want you to know I appreciate it." Said Harold Stassen, with proper modesty: "You did it yourself...
...record in the Pacific indicated that it had all but outlived its usefulness. But the P-40 has already had one reprieve. It was to have been discontinued in February. As a result of its successes in Africa it will now be produced until next fall. (If its successor, a new, secret Curtiss fighter, does not pan out as well as expected, the P-40 may live even longer...
...successor to Mexico's rough, tough type of politico is the President's older brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Rich, shrewd Brother Maximino has an interest in Mexico City's bull ring, as Minister of Communications has his hand in many other ventures. He is Manuel's hatchet man, the fixer, "the man to know" in Mexican politics and finance. Yet no man ever traced any venture of Maximino's to the President's door, and certainly not to his pockets. Labor distrusts Maximino, the peasants sometimes confuse him with Manuel. The President once pointed...
...World War I threatened, he drifted out of the fold, smashed a French railway strike by conscripting workers and putting them under army orders, was read out of the party in 1914. Clemenceau's successor as Premier in 1920, he was elected President nine months later...
Last week the Army announced that Ken Walker's successor was also missing in action. Lieut. General George Kenney had sent a hurry call to Hawaii for him when Ken Walker was lost, and Mississippi-born Brigadier General Howard...