Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succeed Admiral Magruder at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Secretary Wilbur designated Rear Admiral Julian Lane Latimer...
Last week the Socialist Party dedicated a memorial radio station in Manhattan to Mr. Debs, giving the wave length his initials, WEVD. Also it announced that, at a recent meeting in Detroit, it had chosen Victor L. Berger, U. S. Congressman from Wisconsin, to succeed Eugene V. Debs as Chairman of the National Socialist Executive Committee...
...University speakers maintained that the uncompromising determination to outlaw war, expressed in an educational program for peace, and effective machinery for international arbitration of disputes, could alone succeed where the appeal to ultimate force has failed...
...this purpose pinched his living; learned shorthand; did odd jobs; and finally went to Paris on his savings. Back from Paris with a thorough artistic background, he started writing; won a contest on the old Baltimore News at an age when most bright young men are beginning to succeed, took the resulting job offered him and in five years was managing editor, at an age when many young men are beginning to admit failure. His later years were devoted to the Baltimore Evening Sun and Baltimore...
Yale appointed Charles Seymour, suave & able Chairman of the History Department, to be Provost of the University; appointed also Shakespearean Actor Douglas W. Ross to be drama coach, to succeed Edgar M. Woolley...