Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem of personnel. Among his first callers was Indiana's smooth, handsome, ambitious Governor Paul Vories McNutt. The reason for Governor McNutt's call puzzled no one. One of the ablest politicians of the Midwest, soon to be out of a job because an Indiana governor cannot succeed himself, he would like a seat in the Cabinet, is typical of Franklin Roosevelt's new patronage problem. For this year a new generation of deserving Democrats lays claim to jobs which cannot be supplied by the simple process of ousting Hoover Republicans as they were in 1932. Moreover...
...Rumor had already fixed several appointments: Pharmacist's Mate George Fox, long attached to the White House, to succeed the late Gus Gennerich as masseur, companion of the swimming pool and personal handler; Son and Marine Corps Lieutenant-Colonel James Roosevelt to become an unpaid, untitled aide at the White House, taking over some of the functions of the late Louis McHenry Howe; Eugene S. Leggett, acting chairman of the nebulous National Emergency Council, to succeed Stephen Early as press secretary...
...important Rules Committee. During the last Congress Representative Bankhead, then Leader, was ill so much that Mr. O'Connor handled the duties of Leader for weeks at a time. When Speaker Byrns suddenly died in the last days of the session, Mr. Bankhead was promptly elected to succeed him, but the stormy question of whether Mr. O'Connor should become Leader was left undecided...
...Editor Kelly gave his staff a definite formula : "We realized that subscribers to our paper were also readers of at least one of the other [evening] papers, and ... we carried no rewrites. . . . We published a new paper every morning. . . . We also ignored the theory that a morning paper to succeed should be dull. All stories were made short and snappy, with no turn heads [stones continued on following pages...
...life insurance business, we know very little-so little that our own personal judgment is worthless. So we have to look to those who know." Loser though he was, Lawrence Mario Giannini, heir apparent to his father's banking throne, announced: "I sincerely hope the plan will succeed." Meantime Commissioner Carpenter prepared to journey to Hot Springs, Ark. for a convention of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which opens this week. There he will seek from his fellow commissioners the approval of his plan, which is necessary for Pacific Mutual to do business in their respective States...