Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ordinarily not much attention would have been paid to it. President Coolidge appointed Robert Edwin Olds, 49, lawyer of St. Paul, native of Duluth, Harvard '97, to be Assistant Secretary of State, to succeed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, appointed Minister to China (TIME, Apr. 13). During the War, Mr. Olds represented the American Red Cross in Europe. He was head of the Red Cross for about three years. At present, he is the American Member of the British-American Joint Arbitration Tribunal created by treaty in 1910, and serving in London. What of it? Nothing...
...Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison was advanced. He will succeed Admiral Robert E. Coontz after the return of the fleet from its cruise to Australia. Then Admiral Coontz will have leave of absence, and will be assigned to other duty?probably with the General Board of the Navy. Admiral S. S. Robison (not to be confused with Admiral J. K. Robison?see below) has been Commander of the Battle Fleet. A man of 58, he commanded at one time or another, the Cincinnati, Jupiter, South Carolina. During the War, he commanded the Submarine...
...Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N. J.) the alumni paraded behind George S. Silzer, LL.D., '23, Governor of New Jersey. The trustees announced the election of Dr. John Martin Thomas, President of Pennsylvania State College, to succeed Dr. William H. S. Demarest (resigned 1924) as President of Rutgers. The University exchanged distinctions with Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., by making that gentleman an honorary Doctor of Laws...
...time added weight of divisional examinations with all the necessary tutorial work that leads up to them. Students as well as instructors have known that the tutorial system was an experiment. They have had ample opportunity to test it, have acquired faith in it, and want to see it succeed...
...whether Captain Ingraham and Captain-elect Whitbeck succeed in defeating Jones and Watson of Yale, when the encounter takes place next week on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club at Philadelphia in the week of June 22, depends the final outcome of this year's tennis season, but in either event the season can be pronounced as successful...