Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been elected to several other offices without Republican opposition. On Jan. 13 he was elected director of the National Bank of Commerce; on Feb. 17 director and general counsel of the U. S. Rubber Co.; last week trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N. Y. to succeed the late General James H. Wilson, last surviving corps commander in the Union Army during the Civil...
...LaFollette apparently had little inclination to succeed her husband, preferred to have her elder son do so. She has been petitioned to run by various groups, most recently by the National Woman's Party, to whom she replied noncommittally...
Depressing. When Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard retired from the ring (TIME, Jan. 26) in order to sooth the declining years of his mother, the New York Boxing Commission proclaimed a tournament to see who should succeed him. Two men reached the finals. This couple-one James Goodrich (Buffalo), one Stanislaus Loayza (Chile)-fought a depressing bout last week on Long Island. In the first round, Goodrich walked over to the Chilean, hit him in the face with his right fist. Loayza fell down, got up again. Goodrich hit him in the face with his right fist, etc. This operation...
...Giuseppe Belluzzo Minister of National Economy, thereby making his Cabinet all-Fascist. The only member of the Premier's original Cabinet, excluding himself, is Signor Luigi Federzoni, Minister of Internal Affairs, who, next to Mussolini, is the strongest man in the Fascist Party and who may one day succeed the Premier...
Died. George B. Churchill, 59, U. S. Congressman-elect from Massachusetts; in Amherst, Mass., of ulcers of the stomach. He graduated from Amherst College two years before Calvin Coolidge entered as a Freshman. He was a professor of English Literature at Amherst when elected, last November, to succeed Frederick H. Gillett, who was elected Senator. He had not as yet taken his seat in the House...