Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officers elected for the club were Gardner, president to succeed Taft, Saltonstall to succeed Gardner as vice-president and Alexander Wheeler '11 to succeed Osborne as secretary. New members of the board of governors are Donald Moffat '16 and John E. Toulmin...
...business meeting before the program, George P. Gardiner '10, will be elected president of the club to succeed E. A. Taft '04, who has just completed a three-year term in office. Leverett Saltonstall '14, will become vice-president, and Alexander Wheeler '08, will take over the office of secretary...
...delegates of 21 nations had been greeted in Cairo's Royal Opera House by 15 kind words from King Farouk, the I. O. C.'s president, Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, said he had visions of "the dawn of a period of peace which is going to succeed a long period of obstruction and difficulties of all kinds." But Count Baillet-Latour's optimistic visions turned out to be an Egyptian mirage. No sooner had the committeemen taken a peaceful look at the pyramids and toured the Nile than they sat down aboard the steamer Victoria...
Under Ireland's new constitution (TIME, Dec. 27) its former President, U. S.-born Eamon de Valera, becomes Prime Minister. During a coast-to-coast broadcast from Hollywood last week, John McCormack, famed Irish-born tenor, offered himself as a Presidential candidate to succeed de Valera-providing 1) a naturalized citizen of the U. S. is eligible for the position and 2) the de Valera and Cosgrave opposition parties favor him. Said he: "Many of my friends in Ireland have written me to throw my hat in the ring...
...succeed resigned Joseph A. Broderick in the longest (14 years) term on the Federal Reserve Board, Franklin Roosevelt nominated bright-eyed Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper, whose job it was to ride herd on the riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington (TIME, Feb. 14). Six years out of Amherst, in 1912 Ernest Draper became president of American Creosoting Co., in 1920 shifted to vice president of Hills Brothers Co., packers of Dromedary Dates. Long prominent in such groups as the New York State Advisory Commission on Minimum Wage and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper...