Word: successors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clinton Anderson (TIME, May 19) is scheduled to resume the powerful chairmanship of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy next year, and Strauss believes their feud would be detrimental to the AEC program. The President wants Strauss to stay on; Strauss has countered by trying to find a successor who is reasonably free of Washington entanglements, reasonably tough enough to stand the heat...
...nation's best-managed companies under two chief executives as famed for their public service as for their business savvy. Clarence Francis, president and later chairman between 1934 and 1954, has been a top food and foreign-trade adviser to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower. His successor, Mortimer, was chairman of the star-studded Advertising Council from 1947 to 1950, headed the United Community Campaign fund last year. Under him, each General Foods' sales dollar has brought a pretax profit of 10? v. 7? for its chief competitor, Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn coffee. Royal Gelatin, etc.), and General...
...with the rabbits who so flagrantly violate her moral standards. The psychiatrist himself becomes a rabbit, for he shares with the beast the secret of sex. He speaks the dark words men hope to hear yet fear to utter. The fear of self-knowledge which inhibits Americans renders the successor of Freud a figure of subconscious sexual dislike--hence a rabbit...
Behind that announcement lay weeks of wrangling and hours of bone-tiring, closed-door committee sessions under Wilbur Mills, longtime reciprocal-trade advocate, whose hopes to be Sam Rayburn's successor as Democratic House Speaker might well be at stake in the success or failure of the trade bill. At one point Mills was so discouraged that he predicted total House defeat for reciprocal trade, urged the Administration to take responsibility for watering down its own program (TIME, May 19). When the Administration stood firm, Mills went back to work. The gizmo that finally won the Ways & Means Committee...
...East Side silk-stocking 17th Congressional District was badly snagged the last two times out by big Democratic protest votes and near defeat, announced that he would not run for a seventh term. Coudert's withdrawal signaled a bloody primary and a bloodier general election to pick a successor. ¶ Two-term Republican Senator Irving McNeil Ives, 62, one of the Senate handful of steady Eisenhower Republicans, announced that poor health (high blood pressure) bars him from seeking a third term this autumn, † Ives's retirement paved the way for the G.O.P. to break a growing deadlock...