Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, was frequently mentioned last week in Washington as a candidate for the governorship of Pennsylvania to succeed Gifford Pinchot. The Pennsylvania Senators, (Pepper and Reed) and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon are understood to be supporting him. Mrs. Mary Key McBlair, a retired Government clerk, 72 years of age, lives in Washington. She has a pension of $20, a month because of Government service. Last week Representative E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut introduced a bill to give her a pension of $1,200 a year, saying that she is in destitute circumstances. Mrs. McBlair...
...World War. Youth resented the militarism and plans of conquest forced upon it by statesmen and diplomats. Of course it is hard to say whether or not German youth would have reacted against militarism had it proved successful in the war. At any rate it did not succeed and the young men and women of Germany revolted against forced military culture...
...Parliament as an institution that failed, but it was the policies of the leading parties and more than that the magnitude of the task which Germany had to face, while Russia has fallen into Bolshevism, Italy into Fascism, and France is verging on a dictatorship, Germany has succeeded in maintaining her stability and order. The chief task of the new government, Chancellor Luther has stated, will be to overcome the present economic crisis. If it succeeds there will be no dictatorship, but if it does not succeed, there might come temporary experiment of "Wartschafiadiktatur", but it would be a passing...
This bloodthirstiness is introspective not to say suicidal. If similar penalties are to be devised for dating a letter according to the flight of the Prophet and for marrying polygamously, it may be that the Turk will succeed in his own extermination far beyond the hopes that Europe has long and fondly entertained...
Salutes boomed across the harbor of Arica last week as the U. S. cruiser, Cleveland, slipped in between the Morro fort and the Chilean cruiser, Chacabuco, and landed Major General William Lassiter at the port-city of Tacna-Arica, where he is to succeed General Pershing as Chairman of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission (TIME...