Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the resignation of Dean Roscoe Pound last fall Landis has been constantly mentioned as the most likely to succeed to the position...
They intend to do it no doubt, but your Jesuitic reasoning makes them more anxious to succeed. I never realized your tendencies, but now your fascist horns and tail become visible...
...succeed him, Secretary Morgenthau selected Frank Wilson, a keen-looking sleuth with a sharp inquiring nose and glittering spectacles. New Chief Wilson dug up the income tax evasion evidence which sent Al Capone to prison, traced and identified in court the Lindbergh ransom money. His assistant will be Joseph Edward Murphy, who was Chief Moran's aide until last summer when he got himself, his department and Secretary Morgenthau into an intra-Cabinet snarl by setting Secret Servants on the trail of G-Men suspected of murdering criminals without giving them a chance to surrender (TIME...
...Crisis until it exploded in Commons, has impressed his superiors as something less than an ideal Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Should he retire soon as expected, what more natural than that the able husband of one of the nation's richest women should hope to succeed to his glittering job? Attesting their eligibility, Joe Davies & wife have rented for the Coronation one of London's stateliest houses, The Holme, Regent's Park mansion of the second Mrs. Marshall Field...
...agreeable feature of Swiss politics is the absence of sordid competition. With clocklike regularity Swiss politicians succeed from office to office by uneventful stages. Last week Switzerland's official clock chimed the hour for 65-year-old Giuseppe Motta, Roman Catholic, ex-lawyer, father of ten, to be re-elected President of the Swiss Confederation ("President of Switzerland") for the fifth time. As head of the Swiss delegation to the League of Nations, onetime Foreign Secretary and onetime Finance Minister, Dr. Motta has drained the Swiss political...