Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Told by reporters at Guam that he had been named to succeed James F. Byrnes the five-star General declined to discuss his plans for problems...
...source of confusion lies in the President's selection of General Marshall to succeed him. He is an unusual military man and his qualifications for the job are many. A non-West Point soldier, General Marshall's military brilliance and overwhelming devotion to duty, as evidenced by his rumored refusal of the job of Supreme Commander for the sake of Allied harmony and his acceptance of the mission to China when he had every right to look forward to his retirement are well-known. He is also perhaps one of the few living Americans of any public importance...
...G.O.P.-controlled Congress with even more authority than he wielded last year. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, his influence in uniting Senate action on the broad objectives of world security will be greatly enhanced. He firmly believes that U.S. policy, as it is today, will succeed - "unless it is scuttled here at home...
Some old fool up here has the same idea, and may succeed in shortening our grouse season by two weeks, next legislature. . . . We could have got our limit many times over. Hurricane blowdown full of them. So thick that cats, owls, fox, etc., are getting many more than hunters. We've seen eight in one tree this season, never went out a day without flushing at least 20 in short time. No apples this year, consequently all birds in thick woods, feeding on thornapples, hornbeam buds, and ground seeds...
...absent newsmen and politicos had gathered elsewhere, in Room 331 of the Morrison Hotel. There smart, ulcer-ridden little Jake Arvey, the new boss of the old Kelly machine, was introducing the Democrats' candidate to succeed Ed Kelly as mayor: a husky businessman, Martin Kennelly...