Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico, upped the chancellor's salary from $7,500 to $15,000. Puerto Rico's Governor Guy J. Swope resigned to take a post as Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions in Secretary Ickes' Interior Department. To succeed him, Franklin Roosevelt nominated Chancellor Tugwell...
...pursuit commander who was assigned to the Fourth Air Force (Riverside. Calif.). To the Army's youngest major general. 51-year-old Lewis Hyde Brereton (one of the few Army men whose careers began in the Navy) goes command of the Third Air Force at Tampa, Fla. To succeed Major General James E. Chaney, who is watching World War II in Great Britain, 54-year-old Major General Herbert A. Dargue takes command of the First Air Force at Mitchel Field. L.I. (see p. 33). New commander of the Second Air Force (Spokane, Wash.) is 53-year-old Major...
...biggest Presbyterian church in the world (First Church, Seattle, 6,920 members) last week ended a 17-month battle over who should succeed the late, beloved, arch-Fundamentalist Dr. Mark A. Matthews (6 ft. 5 in. "Tall Cedar of the Sierras") as its pastor. Called by a vote of 349-to-83 (one-sixteenth of the congregation) was eloquent, diplomatic, athletic Dr. F. Paul McConkey of Detroit. During the 17-month squabble, the parish lost seven of its 26 branch churches, 1,100 members...
...Arkansas Diamond Corp. last fortnight sold its long-idle field in Pike County, only one in the U.S. ever developed commercially. The buyer: an anonymous Chicago syndicate which hopes that wartime demand for industrial diamonds (up 60%) and wartime prices (up 20-70%) will enable it to succeed where others long have failed...
Archibald Joseph Cronin seldom makes such mistakes either. His first novel, Hatter's Castle, sold 70,649 copies; and he has been writing best-sellers or near bestsellers ever since. His case proves again that a writer can succeed with any subject provided he writes excitingly enough...