Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lower court and excludes a vote in the legislature, it could call for a runoff or a new special election. In either case, the state might be subjected to six more months of legal confusion, whereby Governor Carl Sanders would remain in office after Jan. 10 until his successor was named...
After a year as deputy mayor of New York City, sharp-spoken Lawyer Robert Price, 34, thought it was time to turn his sword into a plowshare, resigned to become executive vice president of the mutual-funding Dreyfus Corp. "The only advice I can give my successor," he said, "is to work hard, stay clean, walk with your back to the wall and keep your Bible handy...
With that track record, the Comptroller of the Currency finished his term and agreed to take a high position at an as yet unnamed Midwestern bank. Thereupon, President Johnson last week appointed a successor who everybody hopes will be just as effective but somewhat less abrasive than Saxon...
...costs and benefits, the provision for limitations on the use of nuclear weapons, and the proof that "the defense department can be run from the top as any large organization ought to be." The new management procedures will survive his departure, McNamara believes, because "public pressure" would prevent his successor from returning to the old hit-or-miss techniques of planning. "I don't think we can walk away from what we've done in the past five years...
While President Conant was less than gung-ho about the idea of a university theatre, his predecessor, A. Lawrence Lowell, had actively opposed one, going so far as to refuse unsolicited offers of money for the purpose of establishing a drama school. Conant's successor, Nathan Pusey, felt differently. Early in '54 he announced his support for a drive to finance construction of a theatre, and when John L. Loeb '24 donated a flat million to the cause, its realization became a certainty...