Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment of a Junior to the position of assistant-secretary is a recently initiated procedure. The reason given for this is the turbulence of routine business caused by the change of secretaries each year. The junior secretary will continue in this position and automatically succeed to the secretaryship, subject to the approval of the Governing Board...
should Dr. Hugenburg succeed in uniting these divergent elements, it would indeed be a political triumph. It is true that the election of Hindenburg and the Munich demonstration indicated that a considerable number of Germans still cherish the memory of the Empire. But since a Hohenzollern restoration is not a part of the Hugenberg plan, his platform will have but little appeal to the monarchists. Nor will the Communists, much as they dislike the present regime, be inclined to range themselves on the side of a reactionary and oligarchic movement...
Henry Russell Wood '27, of New Bedford, was elected captain of the wrestling team yesterday afternoon to succeed C. H. Bradford '26, captain of this year's team. Wood prepared at Milton Academy, where he twice won the school championship, and captained his Freshman team, which was defeated by Yale by the slight margin of 14-11, despite the fall gained by the 1927 leader. During the past two years, he has been wrestling in the 158-pound division and has been a member of the two teams which won New England Intercollegiate championships. He was injured this year...
...always do the collegiate hordes succeed so well as did the Blah with its social enterprise. Occasionally the less whimsical element enter into the sport with ill effects. The Brockton Bugle sounds the following ominous notes...
Later Briand returned too, after an exhausting 72 hours at Geneva. He found Paris bubbling with desire that he succeed himself, reform the cabinet. He said he would refuse. "They have broken the dish on my head," he said, "and now expect me to pick up the pieces." He repeated that he would refuse. He conferred with President Doumergue and still said he would refuse. But the pressure was increasing. With a cabinet drawn slightly more from the Left than last time, he could save the day. He still refused, but his friends gave him little rest?little rest...