Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress' answer would show itself largely in the election of a new president to succeed aged, ailing Chaim Weizman, distrusted as pro-British in spite of a lifetime given to Zionism. Two candidates were angling for his job. One was dynamic David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive. His opponent was a Cleveland rabbi, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. Sad-eyed, smooth-talking Dr. Silver, who led some U.S. Jews in opposition to the British loan, opposes Ben-Gurion on the ground that the Agency's offer on partition was a tactical blunder which gave ground...
Western Maryland is best known around Cambridge because Harlow was head football coach and director of athletics at that institution from 1926 until April, 1935, when he was named to succeed Edward Casey '19 as pigskin mentor at Harvard, Line Coach Harold Kopp is a graduate of Western Maryland, having captained one of Harlow's teams there. The newly-scheduled contest will be the first gridiron meeting ever held between the two colleges...
Last week the President also: succeed Democrat Alfred Schindler, resigned, as Under Secretary
of Commerce.
...also warned that there will be groups trying to dominate the conference in their own interest and said that "we can only work and attempt to make certain that they do not succeed...
...Group," which wants a modernized, industrialized China on a broad, democratic base. Chang has been a Kuomintang executive since 1928, is no left-winger but is equally opposed to the Confucian conservatism of Chen Li-fu. This week the newspaper Ta Rung Pao reported that Chiang Kai-shek may succeed T. V. Soong as Premier, bring in Chang Chun as his deputy and administrator...