Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ontario members of unions affiliated with C.I.O. But shrewd "Mitch" Hepburn had apparently done himself no harm by waiting until Sit-Down alarm had boiled across the border to begin his one-man stand against an alien invasion. As a coming man in Canadian politics, pointed to succeed Mackenzie King as Dominion Prime Minister, his rousing blasts at "John L. Lewis and communism" were nicely calculated not only to make a surefire appeal to Canada's patriotic masses, but also to placate conservative voters hitherto repelled by his loud New-Dealishness. Nor could his countrymen be unaware that...
...fierce drive few miles to the northwest of Teruel, General Franco's powerful garrison in eastern Spain, 150 miles from Madrid. Again and again the Leftists, backed by war planes, thrust forward in an effort to weaken General Franco's hold in that critical sector lest he succeed in wrecking their communications between Valencia and Barcelona...
...flight U. S. railroadmen headed by President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, and 150 bigwigs from other businesses. Toastmaster at the banquet was bald-pated William Martin Jeffers, 61, U. P. executive vice president, who last week was named by Chairman William Averell Harriman to succeed Mr. Gray on Oct. 1. It is at Carl Gray's own insistence that he steps down as president three days after his 70th birthday, so that no exception be made to the U. P. retirement rules. He will become vice chairman of the board with supervision over matters...
Democratic Britain and France were reported trying to get Democrat Davis to wend his appeasing way to Berlin and Rome, beard Hitler and Mussolini with blandishments. The Paris newspundit Pertinax suggested that the Great Powers might succeed if President Roosevelt would find a way to permit Germany and Italy to borrow hugely in return for agreements by Berlin and Rome to cease arriving and give concessions "such as to involve the practical disappearance of Hitlerism and Fascism"-this being Pertinax'?, sly way of saying that Mr. Davis faces the supreme challenge to his optimism. In London David Lloyd George...
...Army, and daily last week Spain supplied a dossier of facts to show that it was Soviet assistance, ably coordinated by Moscow's General Emilio Kleber and the fleets of Russian bombing planes and tanks at the disposal of Madrid which were enabling the Leftists to succeed last week, just as previous sweeping Rightist drives relied enormously on Italian and German bombers and tanks. Nearly every night last week Madrid put on wild celebrations. Its Defense Junta voted to decorate its chairman General José Miaja "for valor." This wise, owl-bald Spanish professional soldier had to exert himself...