Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote are black-listed as civic-duty dodgers and have to pay a 100-peso ($5) fine. Consequently, last week most of them turned out to vote in a typical South American election which picked a successor to stern, small-eyed President Arturo Alessandri Rodriguez, forbidden by law to succeed himself...
Said Dr. Edward S. Godfrey Jr., Commissioner of Health of New York State, who was elected 1939 president to succeed Abel Wolman: ". . . I would prefer a demonstration at the outset on a smaller scale than a State as a unit...
...succeed President Frothingham the I. B. A. chose a banker from as far away from Wall Street as possible - sunburned, zestful Jean Carter Witter of the California firm of Dean Witter and Co. At 46, Jean Witter is the crack security salesman of the Pacific Coast. Said Banker Witter last week: "I should like to put down as the first item on our schedule for 1938-39 - work with the SEC in carrying out the objectives of the securities legislation it is obligated to administer...
Such a radical enlargement of the debating fold is ambitious and if it is to succeed, it will require not only the active interest of those 192 men who have already expressed a desire to talk, but also spectator-sympathy from all other students. When the curtain has risen, the play will "take" only if the audience acts, feels, and participates with the cast...
...Elected president of RKO to succeed retiring Lawyer Leo Spitz was bulky, greying, onetime film salesman, George Joseph Schaefer, now distribution head of United Artists. First Schaefer job at RKO: steering the bankrupt company through a reorganization plan which the U. S. District Court is expected to approve this week...