Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the A. B. See Co. kept on making elevators first in Brooklyn and then in Jersey City, prospered in its quiet way. Son Alva B. See entered the business after graduating from presumably the least punishing prep school the Sees could find (Blair Academy), worked up to succeed his father as president in 1930. Biggest job the company ever handled was the installation of 24 elevators in New York County Courthouse, cost: $400,000. Its biggest job at present is being done for the Library of Congress. First disclosure of the company's financial status occurred last week...
...unity of Ireland. When we have got that majority the problem of the unity of the country will be solved. . . . There has been no question of force in regard to the six counties. We recognize it would be a distasteful task and one which probably would not succeed and which ultimately, if it did, would not make for the kind of union we want...
...marrying Ailing ("Pleasant") Soong, smart Dr. Kung became brother-in-law at one crack of China's late, sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, President Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minster T. V. Soong. It was logical in 1933 when T. V. Soong quarreled with Chiang that Dr. Kung should succeed to his job. Regarded then as second-rate compared to brilliant "T. V.", Dr. Kung has since done a whacking good job, currently sits high at China's council tables. When Chiang was kidnapped last winter, Dr. Kung became acting President, ran the country through that highly explosive situation...
Last week the following were news: To succeed the late George Fisher Baker (TIME, June 7), the directors of Manhattan's rock-ribbed ($674,142,930) First National Bank elected as their new chairman stalwart, sloe-eyed Jackson...
...born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle since he plunked down $35,000 to help them try, and almost succeed, in carrying rock-ribbed Republican Pennsylvania for the Democrats in 1932. Nor could Franklin Roosevelt fail to take notice of him. He was made Minister to Austria. Two years later Mr. Guffey & friends called back Minister Earle, still without any political savoir-faire and even without the ability to make...