Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watched Cyrus Locher, Ohio Democrat sworn in to succeed the late Frank Bartlette Willis, Republican. (On his third day in the Senate, Senator Locher was invited to preside in the absence of Vice President Dawes. He acquitted himself ably as a Parliamentarian, in the little he had to do during one of Senator Blease's interminable speeches...
Elected. Elmer T. McCleary, expert steelmaking vice president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.; to be president of the Republic Iron & Steel Co.; to succeed Thomas J. Bray, resigned...
...succeed Herbert Lee Pratt, elected chairman in succession to Henry Clay Folger, recently resigned...
Last week, to Mr. Keller, there came a new promotion. The directors of the Manhattan Ritz elected him to succeed Duncan G. Harris as president of the New York Company of the Ritz Carlton Hotel Corporation. The directors who elected Mr. Keller to his new eminence were, without exception, gentlemen of ritzy appearance; all are listed in the Social Register; three of them were: George McAneny (architecture), Frank Presbrey (advertising) and Whitney Warren (architecture). The chairman of the board of directors is perhaps the most socially elect among their number. He is Robert Walton Goelet, who belongs to 19 clubs...
Elected. Albert Hall Harris, director of fourscore companies, to be chairman of the executive committee of the New York Central R. R. Co.; to succeed, in duties but not in title, the late chairman of the board of directors, Chauncey Mitchell Depew...