Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking back now, I am glad that I did what I did and that I did not succeed to the Presidency in 1945. It took 10 or 15 years before the Democratic and Republican parties adopted the program I stood for in the early '40s-a program that was based on peace and the welfare of the world and which was criticized as "milk for Hottentots," "TVA's on the Danube," and "Globaloney...
Slated to succeed General Alfred M. Gruenther as supreme allied commander in Europe at year's end: General Lauris Norstad, U.S. Air Force...
...James Crane Kellogg III. 40, senior partner in Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, biggest firm of Stock Exchange specialists, was nominated to be chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Almost certain to be elected next month, he will succeed Harold W. Scott, who is resigning because the job (principal duty: liaison between the Board of Governors and the permanent staff under President Keith Funston) takes too much time from his business activities. Kellogg went to Williams College for two years, quit at the age of 19 to start in Wall Street as a runner. He moved onto the stock exchange...
This was said in answer to a charge by state chairman Coleman L. Bornstein that the proposed platform would only succeed in "parading our dirty wash before the public...
...greatest single threat to civil liberties in this country is the fear of communist aggression, both external and internal," Griswold said. If the Communists succeed here, he pointed out, there could obviously be no civil liberties in this country...