Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Dakar had been opened to Allied forces. But although some French troops were fighting with the Americans, there was no record of Darlan having ordered them to do so. He had been powerless to bring the French fleet at Toulon to the side of the Allies. If he succeed in establishing himself as leader of the French, would post-war France be governed by the officers' clique and her "200 families...
Adam Yarmolinsky '43, announced last night his nomination of Jack Ellison '43 to succeed him as Chariman of the Harvard War Service Committee...
Maurice M. Osborne, Jr. '45, of Winthrop House and Boston, was announced president of the Lampoon last night to succeed Oliver E. Allen '43 of Lowell House and New York. Osborne will be carrying on a family tradition; his father was lbis...
Thundered the New York Herald Tribune: "By any standards of common sense the suggestion that Werner Schroeder should succeed Joseph W. Martin . . . would be too preposterous to deserve comment. But the sort of isolationist stupidity which is central over Chicago could not exist if it were not itself isolated from reason. . . . [Schroeder] was still making isolationist speeches just before last week's election. Such a stand . . . makes the suggestion of his name an insult to sound Republicanism. ... If the party wished to commit suicide it could hardly do a quicker or more effective job than by placing a Schroeder...
...Hitler tries hard enough, he may yet succeed in doing what Architect Sir Christopher Wren tried and failed to do nearly 300 years ago-rebuild the capital of the British Empire. To plan post-war London, Britain's Royal Academy formed in 1940 a Planning Committee consisting of 25 distinguished architects and civic leaders. The committee was headed by famed Civic-Developer Sir Charles Bressey (68) and Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (73), designer of London's Cenotaph and Washington's British Embassy...