Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London it was announced that the Right Honorable Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, M. P., only son of Lord Halifax (Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales) has been appointed Viceroy of India, to succeed Lord Reading upon the latter's announced retirement next April...
...this was taken as an open menace to the Nationalists, and as a threat to force a showdown before the electorate, if they succeed in scotching the Locarno treaties in the Reichstag...
Coach Mitchell, who had charge of the fall practice pending the appointment of a permanent coach to succeed E. W. Mahan '16 who resigned last summer, declared himself satisfied with the results of the fall sessions. Cold weather resulted in the calling of many of the practice games, but the fall work revealed some promising material, especially as regards Freshmen...
MacNider. As one steps out an-other steps in. President Coolidge appointed Hanford MacNider, of Iowa, onetime Commander of the American Legion (1921-22), to succeed Mr. Davis as Assistant Secretary of War. He is even younger than his new superior, is only 36. Like Mr. Davis he is a Harvard man. He fought overseas, rose to a Lieutenant Colonelcy, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Said Mr. Davis: "It is a splendid appointment...
...Government to exact "a special contribution on all forms of fortune and capital." This phrase, is interpreted as urging that interest payments be suspended on all French Government securities and the sums thus realized used to recoup France financially. It is thought that a levy on interest may succeed as being more "orthodox" than one on capital. For the moment M. Caillaux has pledged himself to the measure "as a member of the Radical Party, though not necessarily as Finance Minister." He appears to have kept the conference from jumping on his neck and that of the shaky Painlev...