Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gettysburg. The President met Herter at his farmhouse door, took him inside for a 75-minute discussion on the Western Big Four Foreign Ministers' meeting just concluded at Paris. Herter's verdict on the meeting: "Very successful." Next day, he went to Walter Reed Hospital, briefed ailing Predecessor John Foster Dulles...
...change its oil policy and let private capital into oil exploration and development. Said Mrs. Luce: "I was the instrument of my country's policy. I had no private policy of my own, and certainly I had no oil policy of my own ... I tried, as my predecessor had tried ... to persuade the Italians that they would be far better off if they would develop their own subsoil riches, and that this could be most quickly done, since they did not have the capital, with capital from abroad...
With his innate sense of what is fitting, Herter kept himself in the background during his first few months at State, listened much and talked little. After the often grating brusqueness of Herbert Hoover Jr., his predecessor as Under Secretary, Herter's unflagging courtesy and willingness to listen boosted departmental morale. But his occasional exasperated "goddams" packed a wallop. Gradually, State Department hands came to see that behind Herter's gentleness was a strong and tenacious mind. "I learned one thing," reported an Assistant Secretary after emerging from Herter's office. "You've got to know...
...stark and tortured portrait of Tokyo's historical red-light district after the occupation, the Japanese film Street of Shame, reaches toward the superb level of its predecessor Rashomon. Dealing with the highly controversial issue of legalized prostitution, it does not bypass cliches ("Does an unnecessary business last so long?"), nor does it resist the opportunity to moralize. Nevertheless cliches and moralizing inherently attach themselves to the problem, which Street of Shame approaches warily and with artistic detachment...
...Class of '63 will include "at least 50 and perhaps 75 more students" than its immediate predecessor, Dean Bender revealed yesterday. This increase of around five per cent means that a record-breaking class of over 1200 will enroll in September...