Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago's primary election last April, last week brought indictments of a police lieutenant, eight racketeers and a large, dark figure who had seemed destined to gain fame in the councils of the nation-Oscar DePriest, first Negro alderman of Chicago, nominee of the G. O. P. to succeed the late famed Martin Barnaby Madden in the House of Representatives. It was not the first time Mr. DePriest had been indicted. In 1916 he was accused of handling tainted money, but the charge languished and died in Chicago's political limbo. This time the charge was conspiracy...
...Roosevelt '04 was yesterday nominated by the Democratic party to succeed Governor Smith as governor of New York state. It was with great difficulty that the Democrats finally secured Mr. Roosevelt's acceptance of the nomination...
Teamed with Barrett on the first eleven at present is F. A. Clark '29, another veteran. If Clark can succeed in putting his 200 pounds or so to their full advantage, he will develop into a really first-rate tackle. His chief trouble in the past has not been lack of ruggedness or his aggressiveness, but in a certain awkwardness which has prevented him from utilizing his full powers...
Alfred Claghorn Potter '89 of Cambridge has been chosen to succeed W. C. Lane '81, who is retiring as Librarian of the University...
Princeton had Col. Augustus Trowbridge, physicist, as dean of the graduate school, to succeed Andrew Fleming West, resigned. Harvey L. Lutz, famed in Europe as a public finance expert, went from Stanford University...