Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white home in peaceful Suffern. After the funeral Herbert Lehman returned to his summer place at nearby Purchase, picked up the telephone, dictated a 25-word statement to his secretary in Albany: "If my party desires me to be a candidate for the office of U. S. Senator to succeed Senator Copeland, I will accept the nomination." Some leaders rejoiced, others fumed. Franklin Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley got together for a hasty conference. But such are the rules of party politics that, by his adroit and well-timed move, Governor Lehman had practically appropriated for himself one place...
Less handsomely, Berlin's 12 Uhr Blatt declared: "Max had to fight three opponents: Louis, advancing age and certain unfair machinations. If Max did not succeed, it was not because there is a better boxer than he, not because Louis is a superman. For two years Schmeling had to wait for a fight which was denied him against all the rules of fairness and sportsmanship...
With this rabbit punch at his foes, white-goateed Statistician Roger Ward Babson last week rudely suggested that famed Helen Keller be elected to succeed him as moderator of the general council of the Congregational and Christian Churches. Shocked bigwigs of the church council, which was holding its biennial convention in Beloit, Wis., hastily apologized to Miss Keller for "the public use which has been made by Mr. Babson of the name of Miss Helen Keller in a most unkind and undignified manner...
...industry will not revive until prices are cut. But steel prices are as stiff as any in the country and this opinion bounced off steelmasters like BB shot off a tank. Last week it seemed that where Franklin Roosevelt had failed to dent their determination, continued bad times might succeed. 2) Building material prices last week hit a new low since 1936. In Franklin Roosevelt's last lecture on prices he remarked that a sharp increase in building costs last year nipped a promising building boom. Probably the most optimistic sign on the U. S. business horizon last week...
...this puny sum. Legend has it that when he refused, she produced a horsewhip, thrashed him soundly in the lobby of his swank Manhattan office building. In 1928 she died, and Elisha sent his daughter, Audrey Bridget, to live with his parents while he gradually began to succeed as a detective story writer for pulp magazines and newspaper columnist under a pen name...