Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Eugene R. Black, onetime president of the Atlanta Trust Co., to be governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank; to succeed Maximilian Bethune Wellborn, retired after 13 years as governor...
Elected. T. M. Girdler, vice president in charge of operations for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh, to be president; to succeed Charles A. Fisher, resigned to withdraw from active business...
Elected. Robert E. Wood, 47, U. S. Army general (resigned), vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., to be president; to succeed the late Charles M. Kittle. General Wood is a brother-in-law of Protestant Episcopal Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island and of Senator Thomas Hardwick of Georgia...
Elected. Carl F. Danner, president & treasurer of the Pine Grove Tanning Co., Pine Grove, Pa., to be president of the American Hide & Leather Co.; to succeed John C. Lilly, resigned. To the new office of chairman of the directorate was elected Claude Douthuit, a director...
Elected. Charles Eugene Johnston, 46, hitherto vice president and general manager, to be president of the Kansas City Southern Railway; to succeed Job Adolphus Edson, president for 22 of his 60 years in railroading. Leonor Dresnel Loree seeks to unite the K. C. S. R. with the St. Louis-Southwestern and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas as a southwestern railroad system (TIME...