Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defenses into shape, Governor Wu is busy trying to win the loyalty of Formosa's 6,500,000 people, most of whom dislike the Chinese, Nationalist or Communist. To win friends among Formosa's hard-working peasants, Wu is pressing for further land reform. Wu's predecessor, General Chen Cheng, started a good reform program; tenant farmers who used to pay as much as 70% of their crops in rent now pay a maximum of 37-5%-Even the landlords who at first bitterly opposed the reforms now seem to be pleased because contented tenants deliver their...
...family. Dingaan's brother and predecessor, the frightful Chief Tchaka, slaughtered an estimated 1,000,000 fellow blacks in genocidal wars. He liquidated women as useless, mourned his mother's death by killing 7,000 followers, was himself murdered by Dingaan...
That year Gay resigned to take on the presidency of the New York Evening Post, and Wallace B. Donham left his Old Colony Trust Company vice-presidency to become the Business School's second dean. In his first report Donham hailed his predecessor's ten years of work in launching the School but lashed...
...able John Francis Shelley, 44, seasoned state political leader and president of the California State Federation of Labor (A.F.L.), handily captured the ever-Republican Fifth District. But Shelley was the first to admit that the labor-heavy Fifth was just replacing one good union man with an other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some other Democrat...
...also devote its time to with profit. While the Council's Committee on Student Welfare stands ready to listen to student complaints, it has fallen down both in publicizing this service and in taking positive action to protect the student along the lines laid out by its pre-war predecessor. A more vigorous showing in this endeavor would be of great service to the student body, and this function is one that the Council is probably able to handle better than any other organization...