Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual meeting of the Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges held in New York during vacation, Dr. W. H. Geer, Director of Physical Education at the University, was elected president to succeed J. D. Nichols of Ohio State University...
...college graduate who turns to baseball as a profession, is that he treats it as an experience rather than a business and doesn't put his mind on his work. Baseball is like any profession in that it demands close study and attention if a player wants to succeed...
...President appointed Joseph W. McIntosh of Illinois to succeed Harry M. Dawes (brother of Charles G.), resigned as Comptroller of the Currency...
...Committee he should be given the office again at the annual convention next fall. Friends of Mr. Woll pointed out that he was youthful, that of all the candidates he had been closest to Samuel Gompers. It was known, further, that Mr. Gompers had wished that Mr. Woll should succeed him, although the latter belongs rather to the radical wing of the organization. William Green was the candidate of the mine workers and the carpenters, the two largest groups of the Federation. He belongs rather to the conservative wing, although not to the extreme conservatives...
Last week, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur announced the appointment of the 27th Superintendent of the Academy, Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nul- ton, who is to succeed Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, the present superintendent, who retires...