Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate for Parliament on the government ticket. None of this in any way pleases Hamid Franjieh, one of the top men in the rival clan who has served twice as Lebanon's Foreign Minister, is now the leading Christian spokesman for the opposition, and dearly wants to succeed incumbent Camille Chamoun as President of Lebanon. Hamid is convinced that Chamoun's government put up pistol-packing Father Dweihi as a candidate only to discredit the Franjieh clan and to block his own chances at the presidency...
...Team. With Diefenbaker at the swearing-in ceremony were his chief lieutenants, who will take over the new administration. The Prime Minister, who was his party's foreign-affairs expert in opposition, named himself to succeed External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson. To succeed the Liberals' U.S.-born Trade Minister Clarence Decatur Howe, 71, who became the most powerful man in the Canadian economy and, next to Pearson, the Liberal Minister best known abroad, the Prime Minister picked a Winnipeg lawyer, Gordon Minto Churchill, 58. To be Secretary of State (a grab-bag ministry that deals with such...
...item-smasher" is usually filled with rough notes for the column each day, Caen is haunted by the fear that he will run dry, or that San Franciscans will someday tire of hearing about San Francisco. Herb Caen has often been touted as Hearst HQ's choice to succeed aging Gossipist Walter Winchell, if and when W.W. ever retires. But even if Caen could spread his broad interests beyond San Francisco and nationalize his parochial, easygoing style, it is unlikely that he would ever willingly abdicate his caliphdom...
...Jefferson Ward Keener, 48, was made president of B.F. Goodrich Co., nation's fourth largest rubber company, succeeding William S. Richardson, 63, who is retiring. Keener is slated for another early promotion, to succeed Goodrich's chairman and chief executive, John L. Collyer, 63, when Collyer reaches retirement age in September 1958. Born near Birmingham, the son of a Southern Railway conductor, Keener worked his way through Birmingham-Southern College, then the University of Chicago business school, in 1929 got a job teaching economics at Ohio Wesleyan. In 1933 he tried to go to work for Goodrich...
...firm constitutional provision, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines may not succeed himself as President of Mexico. By equally firm tradition, he can pick the candidate who will probably win the election. Some time in the next two months, President Ruiz Cortines will make the choice after a round of crucial but secret talks with former Presidents, Cabinet members, governors and generals-plus a long and lonely conversation with himself. The winner's name will gradually leak out, and he will be nominated when the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) meets late this year. On the first Sunday of July...