Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron through the Northeast and Midlands. Wrote the weekly John Bull: "The whole face of the Kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities . . . the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant, the farmer and the gentleman. ... If [railroads] succeed they will . . . destroy all the relations which exist between man and man . . . and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress...
...members), called on British Labor to oust Communists from their high councils*: "The activities of the Communists within the trade unions are mainly directed to propagating their political faith. . . . We cannot afford to allow the Communists' attempted infiltration into and domination of the trade unions to succeed...
...Indianapolis' citizens made that pretty clear in November when they elected Democrat Al Feeney to succeed Mayor Denny. Feeney campaigned vigorously against the spoils system and especially against the incompetence of the police department and the courts...
...organization of 300 historians working as teams in combat areas. Their findings will fill 99 volumes. On this job, Kemper met Historian James Phinney Baxter, president of Williams College and an Andover trustee. Baxter found Kemper refreshingly free of brass-hattitudes. He thought Kemper would be the man to succeed retiring Claude Moore Fuess (TIME, May 5). Says Kemper of his first civilian post: "Gosh...
Basing its case on the need for price controls if the European recovery program is to succeed, the Brown debate team won a unanimous victory over the Crimson last night on the topic "Price Controls on Basic Commodities." Arthur Stillman and Wells Hangen argued for Brown against Daniel Pierce '49 and Robert Cohn...