Word: successor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ezra and Nehemiah, more than two thousand years ago, the Jews had had their Knesset Hagdola (Great Assembly). The members of its soth Century successor decided also to call it the Knesset. But what should they call themselves? Should they use the ancient word ish (man)? A spokesman for the orthodox Jews objected: "Let's leave that alone until we restore our past glories." They finally chose the word haver, which is colloquial Hebrew...
Next day, 332 delegates met in the same hall to create its Communist-front successor: American Youth for Democracy. It was to be, according to Y.C.L. ex-President Max Weiss's prospectus, an "advanced anti-fascist youth organization in which Communists play a leading role...
Last week the Communist rebels of Greece announced a successor to the vanished Markos Vafiades (TIME, Feb. 14). The new leader and "temporary Premier" was loannis (John) loannidies, a seasoned, sinister and widely feared revolutionist who has been a member of the Communist Party since 1918. Henceforth, said the rebel broadcast, the party would have no more truck with "nationalist diversions." Military commanders who could not absorb "Stalinist military science" (i.e., politics first, military exigencies second), would follow Markos into oblivion...
...Jerusalem last week, Supreme Court President Justice Moshe Smoira regarded the petition as having raised an interesting question. Said he: "The action we will take turns on the question of jurisdiction-on whether our court can be considered a successor court to the Sanhedrin or can go into a purely religious question...
...president in charge of production. Of the projected 67 films, a dozen are already in the can and six are now shooting. The program will "challenge the gloomy prophets of defeat," said Schary, who is being privately hailed by his studio head, Louis B. Mayer, as the long-sought successor to the late Irving Thalberg. There are still "tough problems to be solved," Schary told the visiting salesmen, as they gathered for luncheon under thousands of square feet of improbably blue sky (left over from an old Esther Williams picture). But "no company fearing disaster could plan what we have...