Word: successor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bell succeeds Harold H. Swift, who requested that a successor be chosen for the position at Chicago, which he has held since 1924. Swift will continue as a member of the board as he has done since his election...
Then Mr. Truman exploded a bomb in the State Department which would cause vibrations not only on the Hill, but around the capital and in all the capitals of the world. He announced the resignation of faithful, forceful George Catlett Marshall, and nominated as his successor Dean Gooderham Acheson...
Ballots cast for Michael A. Sullivan a year ago November will be recounted to determine an immediate successor for the late councilman...
...knew that George Marshall, who would be 68 on New Year's Eve, yearned for retirement. But President Truman, who knows a number of persons who are ticking along fine with one kidney,* was optimistic about the Secretary's health and in no hurry to name his successor. If Marshall left, however, there was no doubt of his own choice. It was Under Secretary Robert A. Lovett, of whom he had once said: "Lovett is a better Secretary than the man they have...
...wage-scale is Defense Secretary Forrestal. He has even gone to the extreme of remarking in person that he will probably leave the Administration, instead of allowing the columnists to do it for him. This has so irked the prophets that they have almost left off prognosticating Forrestal's successor. However, a few columns have come forth grudgingly to nominate General Eisenhower, Army Secretary Royall, and Henry L. Stimson, who was in the Cabinet when Dewey was knocking around in knickers...