Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis will succeed Dr. Alexander C. Humphrys who died last summer. Dr. Humphrys was the second president that Stevens has had, having built the institute up until it now enjoys a most enviable reputation as an eminently successful trainer of mechanical engineers...
...change anything you must alter or destroy existing conditions." Then he set up the Republican "crooks, grafters and scoundrels" again and once more flailed them down. Large audiences attend him everywhere. Everywhere he was applauded by the Hearst press, which admires President Coolidge and wants Secretary Mellon to succeed him, but whose owner is Candidate Smith's implacable...
...least sincere statement of his whole trip. "Do you realize," he said, "that I come from a community that gives politics little thought?" The inaccuracy of this statement was that New Yorkers were "thinking plenty" about politics-thinking that perhaps the Walker trip was, after all, a bid to succeed Governor Smith at Albany...
...expected to take the same stand, though for the different reason that she fears the establishment of a precedent which would confirm the League's right to investigate German supplies of arms as well as Hungarian. Thus it seemed, last week, that Count Stephen Bethlen might eventually succeed in bluffing not merely one Chinaman but the League Council as a whole...
Elected. Joseph W. Wear, of Philadelphia, onetime Yale athlete, six times winner (1920-24, 1926) with Jay Gould of the national court tennis doubles; to be chairman of the Davis Cup Committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association; to succeed Julian S. Myrick, of Manhattan, chairman since...