Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These men would soon prove whether the wartime Allies could ally themselves in a concerted policy for governing Germany. Perhaps the military men, with their great sense of the practical and possible, might succeed where political minds so far had failed...
April 25: "Harley M. Kilgore is the man in the Senate most likely to succeed Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor...
...Senator Guy Gillette is slated to succeed Claude Wickard as Secretary of Agriculture...
...feminine colleague, Comrade N. Sergeeva of Pravda, was not so tolerant: "Can anything be concealed from the ubiquitous American press? Is it surprising that with the necessary . . . connections the correspondents of the American newspapers succeed fairly quickly in getting wind of what is being discussed at a closed conference? But to get wind of a subject does not mean truthfully reporting and explaining it. Every day, every hour the press . . . is full of assumptions, conjectures . . . provocation...
Vague & Uncertain. "Whether this last statement was an order or a prophecy, no one knows. He might have said it in a spirit of resignation, realizing that if G&246ring were to succeed him, he would undertake negotiations. He might also have meant it as a direct order to negotiate after his death. The F&252hrer was by now rather vague and uncertain, giving no direct orders, apparently preoccupied with the prospect of his own imminent death...