Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dashingly attractive ("God's greatest gift to mankind," she was once called in a nominating speech), some of her fellow Pennsylvanians feared she might be too dashing. She probably smokes cigarets and such like, they said. But Andrew W. Mellon approved her and Mrs. Scranton was elected to succeed the late John Wanamaker's daughter, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, whose husband is the new Mayor of Palm Beach...
...sportsmanship-all this reads like a bad dream, like something impossible and unreal. It is as if they said, 'We planned to win by sticking a rake handle between Abraham's legs at the fifty-yard mark. It was a good scheme and it seemed sure to succeed. But at the crucial moment we didn't do it. This is real sportsmanship.' No, all this seems frankly incredible. Heretofore we have naively believed that the protests of the English in 1908 and of other foreign teams in later Olympics against the morals and manners...
...shamefully protracted trials, and they give the abstract lie to scores of meaningful psychological statistics. Harry Elmer Barnes may go on believing that the last twenty-five years have given man more knowledge of this problem than the preceding two thousand. The Thomas Mott Oshornes of America may yet succeed in making the prison punitive rather than corrective. But as long as men of Mr. Coolidge's eminence continue to find the problem inconsiderable at its source, the armored skins of complacent legislators can never be pricked into action...
Patrick J. Farrell of Vermont and the District of Columbia, to succeed John Jacob Esch on the Interstate Commerce Commission. President Coolidge had tried to keep Mr. Esch, but the Senate repeatedly refused to believe that Mr. Esch had not overinterpreted the Commission's function and power. Mr. Farrell, Canadian-born, had been retained as counsel for 27 years by the I. C. C., latterly as chief counsel. He is a Democrat, but party is supposed to be forgotten...
...means a harsh, impersonal "business dictator," Dr. Deutsch surrounded himself with numerous trusted associates, of whom Dr. Hermann Beucher seems most likely to succeed him. So rock founded is the prosperous solidarity of the A. E. G. that its securities did not so much as flutter upon the German bourse, last week, when kindly Dr. Deutsch was smitten down by heart failure. Since great secrecy always surrounds the details of large German fortunes, no estimate of the estate left by Dr. Deutsch can be made; but his annual salary income as a director of more than 40 corporations...