Word: succeed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great many of you Democrats in 1940 ran off after a certain Governor [Missouri's former Governor Lloyd C. Stark], who was trying to cut my throat and he didn't do it successfully-they are not going to succeed this time either...
Plane Prex. La Motte T. Cohu, who resigned as T.W.A. president last month, was named to succeed ailing Harry Woodhead as president of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Cohu was chairman and general manager of Northrop Aircraft, Inc. for eight years before his term with money-losing T.W.A. Bogged down by production tangles, Convair lost $5,130,338 in the five months ending April...
These exercises followed the hallowed march (led by red-coated fife and drum corps) from Harvard Hall, where Arthur S. Pease '02, Pope Professor of Latin, was elected president of the society to succeed Ralph Lowell...
Said ailing Dr. Weizmann: "We have reached the culmination of a great idea. It's a long road beset with many difficulties . . . With the blessings of God, we will succeed...
...First. The Federal Communications Commission prepared to receive its first woman member: blonde, 43-year-old Frieda B. Hennock, a Manhattan corporation lawyer, who was named last week by President Truman -to succeed Commissioner Clifford J. Durr, who resigned. (She still has to be confirmed by the Senate.) Polish-born, Bronx-bred Miss Hennock was the youngest woman (21) ever admitted to the New York bar. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, she hopes to represent the women who "comprise radio's biggest audience...