Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers wondered who would succeed Publisher Duval, whether they might expect chit-chat or culture...
Last week the Girl Scouts' directors elected a new chairman to succeed Mrs. Hoover. They elected the lady who for eight years had been national Girl Scout treasurer, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady...
...Hipolito Irigoyen will shortly be inaugurated to succeed Dr. Marcelo T. de Alvear (TIME...
...their month-long Quadrennial Conference, Methodists meeting in Kansas City decided who should succeed the retiring Bishop of New York, Luther Barton Wilson, who is aged and somewhat infirm. Bishop Francis John McConnell, hitherto of Pittsburgh, was the man they chose...
...first thing for the Presbyterians to do was to elect a moderator to succeed Dr. Robert E. Speer. This they did with rapidity on the first ballot. The new moderator is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, a clear thinking moderate, who has never embroiled himself in the Fundamentalist v. Modernist controversy. He beat the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, by a vote of 593 to 318. The moderate moderator named a vice moderator to help him in administering the affairs of his church. This...