Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ministry of Shipping, to succeed Sir John Gilmour, who died last fortnight, went strapping, ambitious Robert Spear Hudson, a blunt ex-diplomat who as Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade was one of the junior ministers who revolted against Neville Chamberlain after Munich. After Chamberlain warned the rebels to play ball, Hudson played ball. Last summer he took credit for Behind-the-Scenes-Man Sir Horace Wilson's abortive plan to offer Germany credits and access to world markets in exchange for peace. Said the Spectator last week: "His appointment . . . over the head of Sir Arthur Salter, whose...
What young (32) Carl Zeidler, son of a barber, lacked in experience he made up in personal charm. Tall, handsome, with wavy blond hair, he had attended Marquette University, where he ran the half-mile, debated, orated, sang and studied law, was voted "most likely to succeed." He made a point of joining dozens of fraternal and civic organizations, including the Y. M. C. A., where he kept in trim swimming up & down the pool. At meetings, which he diligently attended, he could always be counted upon to make a speech, or sing a song in his rich baritone. Said...
...economic unrest is heightened by the fact that after nearly six years of revolutionary social experimentation Lázaro Cárdenas must let go. On July 7, according to the Constitution, Mexico must elect a new President. And there is no man like Cárdenas to succeed...
Elliott Perkins '23, instructor and tutor in History and Literature, has been appointed to succeed Julian L. Coolidge '95 as Master of Lowell House next year, the University announced yesterday...
...been head football mentor and master at Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut for the past two years. He will be assistant to Clarence E. "Chief" Boston, whose appointment as head Freshman football coach to succeed Skip Stahley was announced about a month...