Word: successor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incumbent Secretary James Forrestal held the President's announcement up: he would not let Forrestal leave under fire. Last week, with the heat off, Harry Truman finally accepted Forrestal's resignation with an appreciative "Dear Jim" note. Then the President formally picked as Forrestal's successor big, beefy Louis Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt's onetime Assistant Secretary of War and the Democrats' deserving fund-raiser in the campaign...
After their head lama died in 1883, the monks of the Buddhist lamasery of Naribanchin Sume in Outer Mongolia went to work at once. Their most urgent task, after the ceremonies of death were carried out, was to find his successor, a hutukhtu ("Living Buddha...
...point last year, Boston was boomed by his players as a possible successor to Dick Harlow...
Died. S. (for Samuel) Clay Williams, 64, longtime chairman of the board of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), successor to General Hugh S. Johnson as boss of NRA; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem...
...Palais de Sport in Paris, 19-year-old Harvard Freshman Dick Button gave twelve rivals a lesson in the art of figure skating, won the world's championship for the second year in a row. The women's champion, successor to the throne vacated by Canada's Barbara Ann Scott (now a pro): Czechoslovakia's winsome, 17-year-old Alena Vrzanova...