Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest (74). The Hoover head, unlike Chief Justice Taft's and Alfred Emanuel Smith's,† has no notable bumps or bulges. ¶ President Hoover last week accepted the resignation of Ben F. Wright as auditor of the Philippine Islands, appointed Maj. General Creed ¶ Hammond to succeed him. Also appointed was Robert Ridgeway, Chief Engineer of the New York Board of Transportation, as a U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo next October. ¶ A caller at the White House: Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen. His message to President Hoover: The northwest...
...succeed Editor Gauvreau is one M. H. Weyrauch, onetime assistant city editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, whom Mr. Gauvreau took to the Graphic when it was started...
...With President Hoover I believe that Prohibition is an experiment noble in purpose, and that it was enacted for the protection of the American home, and with him I wish it to succeed...
Pyrtle. Uel Walter Lamkin's term as president of the N. E. A. expired. Elected to succeed him was Miss E. Ruth Pyrtle of Lincoln, Neb., who sailed immediately following the conference to attend conventions of the World's Federation of Education Associations and the American Association of University Women in Switzerland...
Rosenstock to Metropolitan. Josef Rosenstock, 34, will succeed Artur Bodanzky as conductor for next season's German repertoire of the Metropolitan Opera. He will reach the U. S. in September, speaking little English. Since taking honors at Vienna's Academy of Music, he has held posts with the Vienna Philharmonic choir, the Berlin opera school, the Württembergische Landstheater in Stuttgart, the Wiesbaden Opera. Der Rosenkavalier with Mme. Jeritza, compatriot, whom he has never met, may introduce Herr Rosenstock to Manhattan...