Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When First Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore Walters died last November, eleven Western Senators suggested to President Roosevelt that someone from the West be nominated to succeed him. Mr. Roosevelt nominated instead Mr. Ebert K. Burlew. Few courtiers can stay in favor through more than one dynasty, but Mr. Burlew, administrative assistant to the last four Secretaries of the Interior in a row, was a particular favorite of Republican Hubert Work, is still a particular favorite of New Dealer Harold Ickes. Under Mr. Ickes he has been virtually manager of the Interior Department. He has been constantly embroiled with...
...friend, you like your job, therefore I would like it." What we forget is that "you" and "I" are different persons, each with his own talents and interests, and that even although our environment is the same, the odds are no more than even that we shall each succeed at the work...
...central pair have to get the maid's book of applied witchcraft to restore things to normalcy. They run into special trouble obtaining a yellow-bellied spider and in learning the Babylonian word for cockatoo. They ultimately succeed but with disastrous results for another couple present when the spell is cast...
Carrying out his predicted shift in the U. S. diplomatic corps, President Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate his recommendations that 1) trouble-shooting Joseph Patrick* Kennedy-succeed the late Robert Worth Bingham in London, 2) Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson succeed anti-Nazi Professor William E. Dodd in Berlin. When news of these appointments leaked out (TIME, Dec. 20), the scramble for embassy chairs left one diplomat awkwardly standing, Lawyer Joseph E. Davies. He had just returned from the Soviet Union to see the President and told the press: "I'll go anywhere the boss...
...provided a chair for Joe Davies, it took one away from Careerist Hugh Gibson, who was sent to Belgium from Brazil only a few months ago. Letting Diplomat Gibson stand for the moment, the President filled a vacant chair by appointing Norman Armour, his successful Minister to Canada, to succeed retired Hoffman Philip as Ambassador to Chile...