Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elected the Council's first Negro vice president (to serve with Manhattan's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, outstanding Methodist liberal [TIME, June 26], who was elected president, to succeed Episcopal Bishop Henry St. George Tucker). He is quiet, earnest Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, 49, Baptist minister and president of Atlanta's Morehouse College. A firm believer in education and patience as cures for racial discrimination, Baptist Mays is himself so tolerant that he has never once tried to proselytize his Methodist wife...
...Stettinius won and influenced was U.S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor, in 1933. U.S. Steel was rich, fat, sprawling and unwieldy. Taylor had three ambitions : to tighten its management, to increase its popularity with the public and to step out. He chose a triumvirate of youngsters to succeed him: Ben Fairless to handle sales and operations; Enders M. Voorhees to oversee finances; and Ed Stettinius to be "front man." Ed began as vice chairman of the finance committee in 1934; by 1938, at the bright young age of 37, he followed Taylor as chairman of the board of giant...
...with him went the Polish Peasant Party, the strongest of the four coalition parties which make it up. President Wladislaw Rackiewicz asked Vice Premier Jan Kwapinski, a Socialist (and Russophobe), to form a new government. But with the Peasant Party gone, it did not look as if he would succeed. For ex-Premier Mikolajczyk there were two courses open: 1) he could go into permanent political exile; 2) he could join the Lublin Government, for whom his prestige made him a great catch...
John C. Baker '23, associate dean of Harvard University and professor of Business Administration, has been elected president of Ohio University in an appointment effective February 1. He will succeed W. S. Gamertsfelder, who has resigned...
...French might succeed in throwing a precarious bridgehead across the river, which is very narrow at this point, but it would probably be more useful to sweep northward along the left bank, outflanking the German forces in the Vosges unless they clear out fast...