Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet of Premier Paul van Zeeland this week seemed to be reorganized under the leadership of Finance Minister Henri de Man and the resignations of its members were before King Leopold III. Many expected Economist van Zeeland to go to Basle and succeed the recently drowned Director of the Bank for International Settlements, M. Pierre Quesnay. Attacks of the Belgian Fascists or Rexists upon M. van Zeeland for continuing to receive emoluments from the National Bank of Belgium after he became Premier resulted in a parliamentary vote clearing van Zeeland (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante). But the blatant Rexist press...
...featured is "Sophie Lang Goes West," an incredibly complicated mystery story about an (East) Indian who wants to lose a priceless diamond. The story deals with a reformed male crook and an unreformed female crook who succeed in falling in love with each other through their mutual efforts to keep just a plain crook from stealing the rock...
...running by his own choice was Mayor Frank Couzens, son of Michigan's late Senator James Couzens. The battle to succeed him developed into a three-cornered fight among C. I. O., A. F. of L. and Detroit's better businessmen. Sponsored by the city's conservative citizenry who earlier in the year were fearful that a united labor slate would sweep the field, was Richard W. Reading, long-time city clerk. The C. I. O. candidate was an oldtime Democrat named Patrick O'Brien, Michigan's 69-year-old veteran attorney general who made...
...gloomed: "I can't say if a picture will ever be made under my partnership with Mussolini, but the partnership has not been dissolved." By this time Son Vittorio was en route by sleeper-plane to Washington, obviously aware that a Fascist has about as much chance to succeed in Hollywood as a Zionist producer would enjoy in Mecca...
...Spievak lost both legs at 17 as a brakeman on the Erie Railroad, is so agile at 50 he can kick a football. Light-haired, bespectacled, he is president of Youngstown (Pa.) Artificial Limb Co., which turns out 150 limbs a year. To succeed him the delegates last week chose 50-year-old Clyde Aunger, who at 16 lost a leg in a trolley car accident. In business for himself in San Francisco since 1911, he was taken to Australia during the War to teach his trade. President Aunger's pride is a music box in the calf...