Word: succeed
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...Court of St. James. His next place was as Second Secretary of the American Legation at Peking as direct successor of Mr. Fletcher. His subsequent service was mostly at the State Department in Washington. From 1920 to 1922 he was Minister tp the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Then he again succeeded Mr. Fletcher-this time as Under Secretary of State. Now he is scheduled once more to succeed Mr. Fletcher, as A. E. and P. to Belgium. Promoted from the ranks in Mr. Fletcher's footsteps...
Government's taxation increase of 20% (TIME, Jan. 28). He stated that the Government would merely succeed in raising the cost of living and so place a purposeless additional burden upon the taxpayer...
Premier Poincaré was the center of last week's French political thought. It was said that his position is now insecure and that his downfall may take place at any moment. The various candidates suggested to succeed him were ex-Premier Clemenceau, M. Louis Loucheur (former Minister of the Liberated Regions), M. Herriot (Mayor of Lyons and Leader of the Radical Socialist Party), M. Louis Barthou (head of the Reparations Commission) who was considered the most likely to be chosen as a "compromise selection...
Meanwhile Premier Venizelos suffered another heart attack during a session of the National Assembly. His condition was not serious, but he was indisposed for several days. The Regent? Admiral Koundouristis requested M. Kafandaris, Royalist, quondam Minister of the Interior to form a Cabinet to succeed the Venizelos Government; Premier Venizelos resigned, on his doctor's advice. Despite rumors of a Republican coup détat to oust the great Premier, it was stated that his control of the Greek situation was prerequisite to the maintenance of friendly relations with foreign power. The Premier was to take a rest...
...inhibitions and accumulated prejudices of the Senate, or of the American people or of the world. It is unfortunately true that he had no way of raising mankind to his own mental plane. But if Woodrow Wilson "failed," failure takes on a new significance; it is manifestly impossible to succeed; to "fail" is influitely more glorious than to do nothing...