Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long table, posed briefly for photographers. The Premier was flanked by two of his "policymaking" ministers without portfolio-swarthy ex-Premier Chang Chun and puckish General Chang Chih-chung, both outspoken advocates of peace (and presumably coalition) with the Communists. Temporarily absent were two other policymakers-Sun's predecessor, Geologist Wong Wen-hao, and Conservative Chen Li-fu, chief whipping boy of Communist propagandists...
...President decides to steer this bill to Congress in January, it will be much more bitterly fought by the Real Estate interests than its predecessor. It would aid a higher income group which speculative builders call their own, though they have overlooked it so far. On the other hand, the 300,000 additional units would not cost taxpayers anything, for they would be financed by low interest government loans rather than subsidies. And this proposal is more in keeping with Democratic campaign promises than the conservative HHFA suggestions...
...program of the class committee is left "directly to the committee." The report adds that "each committee will adopt a scheme best suited to its needs and not necessarily patterned after its predecessor." However, each class committee is required to held one social affairs yearly, restricted to class members and their guests...
...sister periodicals) $5,000,000 a year. But few U.S. newsmen, accustomed to the hustle of city rooms, would feel at home in the Zeitung. Every staffer above the rank of cub has his own office, where he dictates stories and headlines to his secretary. Editor Jack Fleischer, able predecessor of Ken Foss, tried to introduce U.S. methods to the Zeitung but didn't get far. The editor won the right to read the copy (it used to go direct from secretaries to composing room), but the paper still has no copy desk or rewrite...
...torch-lit stage in Sanders Theater Sunday night, the setting would have been complete for the fine concert of fifteenth and sixteenth century choral music. Second in a series of three chamber music concerts for the benefit of the Radcliffe Seventieth Anniversary Fund, Sunday's program followed its predecessor in featuring rarely heard "old" music. Once your ear was tuned to the modal harmonies and the hollow sound of open fifths, you could close your eyes and hear Buxtehude, DesPres, Lassus, and Dufay, dreaming of gold brocade and tapestries...