Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Admiral Darlan was received by the Führer himself. And from Zurich it was reported that Adolf Hitler had bestowed on Darlan and his predecessor Pierre Laval the Kriegsverdienstkreuz, second class-a Nazi military decoration for war services rendered outside of military-action...
...bill to give BPA this power.) Fifteen months after Bonneville's generators started purring, the project's first report ruefully admitted it had only one short-term customer, no transmission lines. Anti-Federal news papers headlined: "Bonneville Dam Has Everything But Customers." Meanwhile Dr. Raver's predecessor, the late James Delmage Ross, began to go after business through Municipals and Public Utility Districts, local autonomous public-power bodies that mushroomed after the Bonneville...
...Winant said he hadn't much to say, bit his lip, pawed the ground and jerked out: "I'm glad to be here. There's no place I'd rather be than in England." His harassed sincerity contrasted with the smooth smiles of his predecessor Joe Kennedy, who would rather be almost anywhere than in England...
...undramatic voice isn't out of place. Cast as an old-fashioned Communist who believes the executions should be stopped while there still are a few Russians left, Hedy is crossed up by her tutor who becomes state censor and executioner himself after arranging a fatal accident for his predecessor. The line of Russians that become Kremlin corpses after getting that job looks like a parade course in Sociology with Oscar Homolka standing out as Vasiliev, the Bolshevik bloodhound's bloodhound. Both Clark Gable and Hedy get on the Reds' blacklist, he because his journalistic scoops have been smuggled...
More than a fortnight ago a British battleship cleared from an undisclosed British port, carrying a tall, grave Englishman on a weighty mission. That mission might well turn out to be as important as any in British history. Lord Halifax's problem was not, like his predecessor the late Lord Lothian's, to state Britain's case to a skeptical, suspicious U. S. The stubborn, gallant, outnumbered resistance of Britain had transformed U. S. opinion, not only about the war. but about the character of the people Lord Halifax was to represent...