Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Walter C. White, to be president again of White Motor Co. (Cleveland) ; and to become for the first time chairman of the board, to succeed his brother, Windsor T. White who resigned last November after a disagreement over the operation policies of the company...
...help build the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland. His first huge gift was for a Baptist-affiliated institution of learning?the University of Chicago (founded 1892). He plunged into the giving business as systematically as he had into oil. He trained John D. Jr. to succeed him in both. And then, in 1911,** he entered the business of pleasure...
...entire business of the company ten years ago. I see no reason why ten years hence our export business will not equal our total business of today. Toward Henry Ford, Mr. Raskob exhibited the greathearted attitude of modern big business: "It is important to our country that Mr. Ford succeed. He controls so many sources of raw material and specializes in low-priced cars which are essential and important that if he were not in the business, the economic progress of our country would suffer. It is an actual fact that this progress depends in no small measure upon Ford...
...however, the CRIMSON and the Princetonian succeed in hastening a renewal of this old acquaintanceship their efforts are to be commended. Shaking hands and cancelling old grudges is a more delicate maneuver for rival athletic associations than it is for quarrelsome small boys, but in this case little excuse remains for a longer postponement of the truce. Vale Daily News...
Sometimes threats and blusterings succeed when fair words fail. For some weeks U. S. Cinema Censor Will H. Hays has been in Paris speaking none but fair words (TIME, April 2). His ticklish task has been to persuade the Cinematic Control Commission of the French Ministry of Public Instruction that it ought to modify a recent drastic decree. This was, in effect, that U. S. cinema dramas would be licensed for exhibition in France solely upon condition that for every four films so licensed U. S. exhibitors would purchase one French film and display it throughout...