Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. John S. Keefe, 64, hitherto vice president & director, for 27 years, to be president of the American Steel & Wire Co.; to succeed the late William Pendelton Palmer...
Elected. Samuel Wilson Parr, 71, to be president of the American Chemical Society for 1928, to succeed Dr. George David Rosengarten of Philadelphia...
Elected. John Stewart Baker, 34, to be President of the Bank of The Manhattan Co., in New York, thereby becoming the youngest bank president in New York;* to succeed his father, Stephen Baker, who becomes chairman of the board...
...made his grandson, Stephen Baker, president of the Bank of The Manhattan Company. In the same year a son, John Stewart Baker, was born to Stephen Baker. Last week, the directors of the Bank of The Manhattan Company met again. This time they elected John Stewart Baker president to succeed his father. For Stephen Baker they created the office of chairman of their board...
...ordered him to Walter Reed Hospital for examination. He went unwillingly-and last week Col. John T. Axton, Chief of Army Chaplains, was retired as of next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active duty." To succeed Col. Axton, who is a 57-year-old Congregationalist, the Senate was asked to confirm Lieutenant Colonel Edmund P. Easterbrook, 62-year-old Methodist Episcopalian. Chagrined, Col. Axton announced that he would join the staff of Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N. J.). The chief of Chaplains will become College Chaplain...