Word: succeeded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bigelow was released, Mr. Ward had worked up in the company so far that Mr. Bigelow, mightily pleased, eventually made him a vice president. In 1933, when Mr. Bigelow was drowned Mr. Ward inherited a third of his $3,000,000 estate. Impressed Brown & Bigelow directors elected him to succeed Mr. Bigelow as president, a job he conducts with profane efficiency in an ornate office with four secretaries...
...more ace in the hole. With a shrieking Indian warery they set out for the Varsity field looking for men to plug their gaps. They were unable to corral the services of E. Ingalls, U. Lupien, and others on which their hearts were set, but they did succeed in getting pointers on the national pastime by smiling Fred Mitchell himself. It made no difference, though, and the losers trudged home wiser men, as the poet says...
...died just as Governor Tom Berry was rounding out his second term. Governor Berry might have liked to retire and move into the vacancy. But he was restrained by the fact that his lieutenant governor had just been indicted for embezzlement and might therefore have been ousted if he succeeded Berry as Governor, before he could appoint him (Berry) or anyone else to the Senate. Mr. Berry judiciously appointed Herbert Hitchcock, the State's Democratic Committee Chairman, who accepted though he modestly insisted that "100% of South Dakota's Democrats want Berry for Senator." A year in Washington...
...graduate of Leland Stanford University, the newly-appointed dean will succeed Professor Nathan C. Starr...
...succeed the aged, conservative publisher of the enormously wealthy, faintly stodgy Washington Star as A. P.'s supervising chief, A. P. directors this week chose the middleaged, conservative publisher of the enormously wealthy, faintly stodgy Philadelphia Bulletin. To the 35,000,000 readers of A. P. dispatches, retiring, even-tempered Robert McLean's election will mean nothing. Like his predecessor, President McLean, steeped in A. P. tradition, will be inclined to go along with any changes proposed by A. P.'s General Manager and executive boss, crisp Kent Cooper. But few shifts in A. P. setup...