Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successor to the hapless Maxwell H. Gluck of Manhattan, who, shortly before his departure for Ceylon, won nationwide jeers-and new U.S. fame for Bandaranaike-by admitting to the Senate that he could not "call off" the Ceylonese Prime Minister's name...
Massachusetts law, which forbids suing a trustee except through the attorney general, had made it impossible for the Friends to bring suit against the Corporation until now because George Fingold, attorney general until 1958, had refused to press the case. However, Edward J. McCormack, Fingold's successor, agreed last year to bring the case to court in his name...
Despite his outstanding performance as Lin's successor in Korea, hard-boiled Peng Teh-huai's rigid sense of discipline long ago got him into trouble with the commissars, notably China's No. 2 man, Liu Shao-chi, who raked him over the coals for reducing his junior officers to "ineffective yes men." Best guess as to the reason for Peng's ouster last week is that he has been too vocal in his resentment of Peking's decision late last year to put his army to work building dams, raising pigs and harvesting crops...
...constitutional limit of two five-year terms in the largely honorific office of President of West Germany. By so doing, he added a page to German history: never before had the German people witnessed the spectacle of an elected chief of state peaceably surrendering power to his duly elected successor...
...televised joint session of Parliament, scholarly, white-haired Dr. Heinrich Lübke, 64, onetime West German Agriculture Minister and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's hand-picked choice (TIME, June 29 et seq.) was sworn in as Heuss's successor. There was no pomp or strut about the transfer ceremony; 106 of Parliament's 564 vacationing members did not even bother to attend, and government employees had to be recruited to fill the empty seats so that TV audiences would not be scandalized by the absences. "Silly and arrogant," boomed well-loved "Papa" Heuss when the German Institute...