Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heightened by reports that Fortas had substantially rewritten a first version of the President's 1966 State of the Union Message. Some Senators were also bothered by the fact that Chief Justice Earl Warren had not really resigned, but has only opted to retire if and when a successor was agreed upon. Republicans, scenting victory in November, thought that was a ploy to prevent Nixon from naming his own Chief Justice...
...ghettos." Entering the Fortas controversy for the first time, he took the remarkable line that Earl Warren, "a very competent Chief Justice," was responsible for the whole fuss. By retiring "precipitately," Agnew said, Warren had put the G.O.P. on the spot, since Republican Senators had to vote on his successor...
...portrayed in the picture would help. The painting's mood is mournful. It could be a posthumous portrait of Lorenzino de' Medici, an unhappy Florentine noble who killed Alessandro de' Medici and fled to Venice for refuge, only to be murdered by Alessandro's successor...
Despite such long strivings, Czechoslovakia is, politically speaking, a young country that did not gain its independence until 50 years ago. Even then, it took World War I and two remarkable men to achieve that. They were Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, a philosophy professor, and his colleague and ultimate successor, Eduard Bene?, who had been one of his students at Prague. When the war broke out, they slipped out of their homeland to work abroad for Czechoslovak freedom. A master of public persuasion, Masaryk traveled to the U.S. and argued the case for his country's freedom so well that President...
...decision as a routine step. The timing, he suggested, was a matter of convenience to all concerned. But the fact is that Columbia does not make retirement mandatory at 65, and Columbia's trustees accepted Kirk's resignation even though they have not yet settled on his successor. Apparently divided over whether the retirement would seem too much of a concession to student rebels, the trustees debated the matter for nearly four hours behind closed boardroom doors. But in the end it was obvious that the student uprising had, indeed, forced Kirk's departure...