Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monarchists succeeded in making a coup d'état they could in all probability succeed in gathering a not inconsiderable majority together in the Reichstag. The German People's Party represents the old Conservatives, Junkers and Pan-Germans - all avowedly monarchical factions. The Center Party is composed of Catholics and could be relied upon to support a monarchical movement, if not before success, then certainly after it. The German People's Party are liberals and not adverse to a limited monarchy. These parties alone produce 135 seats in the Reichstag. The Socialists, consisting of the old Majority...
...fate for the week was what befell Senator Selden Palmer Spencer, Republican, of Missouri, on the recent death of Senator Dillingham of Vermont, Senator Dillingham was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, which passes on the eligibility of Senators to take their seats. Senator Spencer will succeed to that office by rule of seniority. It so happens that Senator Spencer was the great champion of Senator Truman H. Newberry in the deluge of mud which swept down upon that gentleman from 1918 through 1922 because he allegedly spent more than $100,000 campaigning for election...
Senator Couzens, Canadian by birth, a former business associate of Henry Ford, a former Mayor of Detroit on a reform platform, has enough money to be independent of "ward" politics?and has the reputation of exercising that independence. Governor Groesbeck appointed him a few months ago to succeed to the mud-beslung seat of former Senator Newberry. If Senator Couzens hopes to continue in office he must stand for re-election next year...
...America is making a very bold experiment to deal with probably the greatest curse of civilization. ... It is all very well for us to say that all this liquor is merely for our own sailors on board ship. . . . Give it [prohibition] a fair trial [in America]. ... If they succeed they will have the gratitude of the whole world...
...Lyman Wilbur, M. D., President of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, was elected President of the American Medical Association, to succeed Dr. George E. DeSeweinitz, of Philadelphia, at its 74th annual session in San Francisco. Dr. Wilbur is 48 years old, and is an educational product of the Pacific Coast and of European universities. Almost his entire professional life has been associated with Stanford and its medical schools, though he was a practicing physician for a few years...