Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School's dean. In 1924 President Coolidge, who never forgot a good man, called him to Washington, made him Attorney-General, asked him to ventilate thoroughly the Department of Justice after Harry Micajah Daugherty. Within a year President Coolidge advanced him to the Supreme Court to succeed Justice Joseph McKenna, resigned...
Only two Chief Justices were promoted from the bench. To one of these, John Rutledge of South Carolina, chosen by President Washington to succeed John Jay, the Senate refused confirmation and he had to resign. Jefferson observed sarcastically to Monroe that Washington's purpose had apparently been "to keep five mouths always gaping for one sugar plum."* But in 1910, when President Taft successfully elevated Edward Douglass White, the precedent was broken...
Next day the commission took Ambassador Gibson's cue by voting to omit "trained reserves" from any plan for the general reduction of armaments which they may succeed in drafting. Since the Versailles treaty prohibits Germany from having any "trained reserves"?whereas the other Powers may now have as many as they please?the German delegation vehemently protested the Hoover concession, but to no purpose...
...committee did succeed in agreeing on the nature and functions of the proposed international bank of settlement (TIME, March 11, 25), and at the very worst, that notable achievement, set forth in a voluminous report, will crown the labors of Mr. Morgan and Mr. Young. Said a member of the Japanese delegation when things looked blackest last week, "I am deeply sorry for our chairman. Mr. Young has done everything a man could possibly do to make for success. It is a shame that his wonderful work should be branded with defeat. He deserved something far, far better!" Allied Bulls...
...Dawes was defensively preoccupied with the finances of the Dominican Republic. Mulling over matters of revenue, expenditures and interest on foreign loans, he could barely pause long enough to acknowledge publicly the fact that President Hoover had appointed him Ambassador to the Court of St. James's to succeed Alanson Bigelow Houghton, resigned. Congratulatory telegrams which preceded the official message from the State Department he tossed aside impatiently. Newsgatherers finally coaxed this statement from...