Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succeed Jesse S. Cottrell of Tennessee as U. S. Minister to Bolivia, the President named David E. Kaufman, native of Carlyle, Pa., graduate of Dickinson College law school, Philadelphia practitioner...
...gradually bettering his committee posts and advancing toward seniority. He is now firmly established near the top of several committees which control the expenditure of public money. He is chairman of the committee on the Senate's rules. Three years ago his party honored him by electing him to succeed the vastly different Henry Cabot Lodge as Republican leader in the Senate. Yet in all this time there has been no important law enacted which bears his name. There has been no great adventure in which he suddenly flashed before the public. He has advanced to power and responsibility through...
...after a hiatus of fifteen years, there came another turn of fortune. The unexpected happened. A Senator in good health and sound mentality actually resigned his office. He was a Kansas Senator and Curtis was elected to succeed him. On January 29, 1907, Curtis left the House of Representatives and entered the Senate, of which Henry Cabot Lodge had been a distinguished member for fifteen years. Lodge had achieved a position third from the top of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Curtis began at the bottom of a committee which had no work and never met, the Committee...
Mason Osborne Damon 2L. of Port Dodge, lowa, and a graduate of Amherst College, was elected vice-president of the organization to succeed J. C. Morley...
Joseph Patrick Tumulty Jr. 2L. of Washington, D. C., and a graduate of Princeton University was elected secretary to succeed F. C. Reed 3L., and Charles Hastings Willard 2L, of Minneapolis, Minn, was elected treasurer. He graduated from Yale University, and succeeds J. R. Quarles...