Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started to talk of how Dulles had provided much moral encouragement during Ike's own recoveries, from ileitis and the coronary attack. Dulles, though appreciating Ike's desire to turn the tables, doggedly murmured that perhaps, after all, he should turn his job over to a successor. Retorted Ike: "Forget about it." He praised Dulles for his remarkable progress, smoothly switched to a spirited discussion of the Berlin situation. Half an hour later he was startled to see the full effect of his visit: Dulles got up and walked with him to the elevator...
...party stand solidly behind me?" Ja, rasped the old Chancellor, you can count on full support. Helplessly aware that he might be setting himself up for the beating of his life, Erhard accepted "in principle"-so long as he would have a word to say in naming his successor at the Economics Ministry...
...past decade. Erhard, 62, pink-jowled, cigar-smoking, fast-talking "engineer of the West German economic miracle," became Vice Chancellor only 16 months ago. He had given Adenauer his winning prosperity issue and his most effective stump-speaking support and was widely regarded as the Chancellor's likely successor. But the old man, still tolerating no rivals at 83, moved suddenly and swiftly to shove his most powerful minister up to the largely honorific office that President Theodor Heuss is to vacate next July at the end of two five-year terms...
Newspaper accounts of his illness and the speculation about a successor depressed him. But his spirits lifted with a second visit from President Eisenhower, after which the President headed off the speculation at the presidential news conference...
...Union of South Africa: Philip Kingsland Crowe, 51, wartime OSS officer in East Asia, Ambassador to Ceylon (1953-56), lately Secretary Dulles' special assistant for confidential press relations (policy guidance, planned news leaks). Crowe's successor as briefing officer: Pennsylvania Banker William Warren Scranton, 41, civic leader, whose ancestors gave their name to the Pennsylvania industrial city of Scranton, formerly Slocum Hollow...