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Word: succeeding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...covered the testimony on the Michigan sitdown strikes, including the testimony of Judge Gadola and ex-City Manager Barringer that the "treasonable" conduct of Governor Murphy had resulted in "a breakdown of civil authority." We cannot hope to stop that type of reporting in the Tribune, but we may succeed in making it embarrassing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...House. Bert Snell of Potsdam, N. Y. retired last summer as Minority Leader of the House. Almost certain to succeed him is Joseph William Martin Jr. of North Attleboro, Mass. Three things will make his job easier than that of his predecessor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The 76th | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...substantially improved on Aristophanes' version of Jupiter's futile escapade. By the addition of Mercury (who impersonates General Amphitryon's adjutant) and in cleverly contrasting the characters of master and servant and god and mortal, the story has been given a masterful twist, a twist which incidentally lets Mercury succeed where Jupiter fails. Henri Garat as the bibulous deity and Armand Bernardas, his more conservative messenger, give brilliant performances opposite Jeanne Boitel and Odette Florelle, two charming citizens of Joinville, whose ardor the Hays Commission has never dampened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

Penn Tuttle '40 was elected captain of the 1940 Cross Country team yesterday, it was announced. He will succeed Roswell Brayton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tuttle Succeeds Brayton as '40 Cross Country Captain | 11/16/1938 | See Source »

...continue "democratic" efforts to coax and induce a financial recovery in France and "balance the budget." Without quite knowing what steps M. Reynaud was going to take, M. Marchandeau snorted that "similar measures have failed at least three times before, and I fail to see why they should succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Swap | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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