Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last winter McNaughton resigned, giving ill health as the reason (TIME, Jan. 3). The man picked to succeed him was Henry Crerar, then commander of the I Canadian Corps. Publicity-hating General Crerar was almost unknown to the Canadian people, and since many Canadians do not think that being colorful is good form, Ottawa war councilors made no effort to color him up. Although Crerar used to be so reticent that he had no cronies and few close acquaintances, he did become fast friends with Montgomery and renewed his old friendship (from World War I) with Field Marshal Sir Alan...
...trying days for many of the lads as they plod into the highways and byways of the surrounding districts seeking, seeking--ever seeking for an apartment, a room or even a large size closet in which to hang the Coop's hat during our last four months. Some succeed, others...
Marshal Tito sent his three-year-old, battle-worn pistol to New York City's battling Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia-acknowledging the Mayor's message of admiration for the Partisans. The Mayor, a World War I veteran who did not succeed last year in getting a brigadier generalship, expressed his belligerent thanks: "Now that Tito has given me the gun, I hope my own government will give me the opportunity to use it ... before it is too late...
...right hand of a Secretary of War who would run both the services. Senator Truman recalled that this was the original U.S. idea: "A single War Department was created by Act of Congress on Aug. 7, 1789. Not until April 30, 1798 did the advocates of an independent Navy succeed in their effort," start a rivalry which flourished bitterly during the Spanish-American War and, masquerading as esprit de corps, reached its unhappy climax in the blunders and dereliction...
...succeed Bradley as boss of the First, the War Department pushed up 57-year-old Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges, who fought under Pershing in Mexico, fought in France in World...