Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Mary B. Lothrop of Boston will succeed Miss Mary C. Small next year as Associate Director of Admissions at Radcliffe, President W. K. Jordan announced yesterday...
Norman W. Shepard, athletic director and basketball coach at Davidson College since 1936, will succeed Bill Barclay as Harvard court mentor, the H.A.A. announced last night...
Tailor-Made. While he looked for good men for the jobs at home, Harry Truman succeeded last week in filling two tough diplomatic posts abroad with men practically tailor-made to his specifications. To succeed Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith as ambassador to Moscow, the President wanted someone who would not run wild with ideas of his own, could be depended on to execute instructions to the letter, and to maintain the tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk...
...Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce at EGA he picked lively, earnest Barry Bingham, 43, wartime naval officer, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal and son of the late Robert Worth Bingham, onetime ambassador to Great Britain...
...annual contract battle between John L. Lewis and soft coal mine owners begins today when the United Mine Workers' chief calls together his 200-men union policy committee. The session will decide on demands for a new contract to succeed the present industry agreement due to expire June...