Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election of Jeremiah Smith Jr. '92 to succeed Dr. Walcott was ratified yesterday at a special meeting of the Board of Overseers, Mr. Smith is a member of the Boston law firm of Herrick, Smith, Donald, and Farley, and was from 1924 to 1926 Commissioner General for Hungary of the League of Nations. At the time of his resignation from this post, he received much publicity through his refusing the check for $100,000 which the Hungarian government pressed upon him. He was nominated this year for the Board of Overseers, but as a member of the Corporation...
...Travel Association's projected repetition into obscurity. But The Binnacle of the S. S. Ryndam had the honesty to report the remark of a shrewd student: "The idea of college travel is so much bigger than the men who have thus far been behind it that the idea will succeed ultimately in spite of bad management...
Philip Putnam Chase '00 has been appointed Director of the Harvard Summer School, to take office July 1, it was announced last night. He will succeed Professor A. C. Hanford, who has resigned to become Dean of Harvard College next fall...
...figment of the imaginations of other newspapermen. At a White House press conference last month, the correspondents sought to pry from the President substantiation for a rumor that Secretary Kellogg was to resign, that Mr. Hoover would succeed him. Nettled by insistent insinuations, the President answered sharply that Mr. Kellogg was not resigning and that, in any case, Mr. Hoover would not succeed him. Pining for a sensation, the correspondents rushed off and filled the press for days with one of their favorite words? "slap." The President, they reiterated, had "slapped at" Secretary of Commerce Hoover. The President at first...
...known that his Cabinet is not split on the Chinese problem, that Secretary of State Kellogg has the situation well in hand and is not going to resign. Furthermore, said the President, even if Secretary Kellogg should resign, Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover will not be appointed to succeed...