Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State's greatest Democratic politicians, Grover Cleveland, was married to Frances Folsom (now Mrs. Preston) in the White House. Grover got his start in politics when he was 30 by working for the election of John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan, Tammany's candidate to succeed the previous Fusion mayor, John Purroy Mitchell. Soon Whalen blossomed out as commissioner of plant & structures and holder of various other city offices. The one which made his reputation was secretary of Mayor Hylan's committee to welcome home coming troops after the War. He soon became the city...
Their Lordships did not thus succeed until after a public breakdown, apropos the bill, had been suffered recently in their House by the 18th Earl of Moray, a decorated War veteran whose behavior was such that British press associations at first suppressed the story altogether and even London correspondents cabled only garbled versions. What happened was that Lord Moray boasted of having "married an American girl in Paris," explaining: "Through the careful forethought of my mother-in-law, I can therefore get a divorce in Scotland or America!" From this the Noble Lord switched into totally irrelevant remarks about...
...Washington Star, richest paper in town, sedate property of Frank Brett Noyes & family, announced last week that Assistant Managing Editor Benjamin Mosby McKelway, 41, would succeed the late, longtime Managing Editor Oliver Owen Kuhn...
Great things were at stake: the fate of the President's Court Bill, and equally important, the choice of a majority leader to succeed Senator Robinson. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, choice of the President for the post, and Senator Pat Harrison, backed by most of the veteran Senators and Court Bill opponents, were the rival candidates. Both kept pretty much to their staterooms. But their friends and supporters lobbied all over the train keeping a jealous eye on one another. The Republicans aboard, led by Senators Vandenberg and Bridges, looked on happily. The rest, even Senator La Follette...
Exact opposite of most presidents who quarrel with their trustees, hard-fisted Tyler Dennett claimed they were wasting money. When Alumnus Dennett ('04) went back to Williams three years ago from a professorship at Princeton's School of Public & International Affairs to succeed President Harry Augustus Garfield, son of the 20th President of the U. S., he was shocked to find that his small, patrician college was piling up steady deficits. President Dennett installed a budget system, launched a money-raising program for Williams' library, laboratories, teachers' salaries, scholarships. But he found 73-year-old Senior...