Word: succeed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With relief, the Senate then turned to the domestic arena. Here was familiar ground. Once again Tennessee's cob-nosed Kenneth McKellar was on his feet, attacking a TVA appointment-this time that of Gordon Clapp, 41, to succeed David Lilienthal as chairman. Gone was the vindictive hatred that had given his denunciation of Lilienthal a certain rheumy dignity. He talked to an almost deserted floor...
...been a pretty hopeless drunkard since he was 18. In sober intervals, he managed to succeed as a poet and novelist. Married twice, he had sacrificed both devoted women, in turn, to his love for liquor. All the usual treatments had failed: psychiatry, mental hospitals, sanitariums, Alcoholics Anonymous. Knowin, that he was on the verge of insanity, and terrified by his hallucinations, he took a job as attendant in a mental hospital. That...
...Branch Rickey's Brooklyn surprise box. First, a last-minute switch nudged aging Arky Vaughan off third base, and gave the job to scrawny John ("Spider") Jorgensen; the rookie from Montreal batted in six runs in one game. Then Rickey announced that soft-spoken Burt Shotton, 62, would succeed exile Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as manager of the Dodgers...
Henry Lopez 31, will succeed Jerome Rappaport '47 21, as president. Other officers are Earl Capehart 21, first vice-president, George Esser 3L, second vice-president, Francis Milligan 2L, secretary, and DeWitt Kirk 3L, treasurer...
...Nominated Washington Investment Banker George A. Garrett as Minister to Eire to succeed crusty, outspoken David Gray, who was retiring after five wartime years of battling belligerent Irish neutrality and keeping Dublin diplomatic circles in an awed uproar...