Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anticipated, Connecticut Republicans last week nominated vote-getting Raymond E. Baldwin as their off-year candidate for the U.S. Senate. To succeed Baldwin as governor the G.O.P. pinned its hopes on tall, quick-tongued James L. McConaughy, head of United China Relief and onetime college president (Wesleyan, Knox). Said McConaughy (rhymes with Donahey) to the delegates: "No one has ever named an apple after me. You are taking a chance in choosing a candidate with a name as hard to spell and pronounce as McConaughy." His almost certain Democratic opponent: ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles...
Political dopesters outside Virginia had bet on flop-eared, wing-collared Representative Howard W. Smith to succeed to the Senate seat of the late Carter Glass. Howard Smith, archfoe of labor unions, was a national figure, openly sought the post and was a member in good standing of Senator Harry F. Byrd's all-powerful state machine...
Born. To Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik, 47, and Crown Princess Ingrid, 36: their third daughter (none of them can succeed to the Danish throne); in Copenhagen. Weight: 3,200 grams...
...year public relations job to a $10,000 post as Under Secretary of Labor (TIME, Aug. 12) set the stage for appeasing the A.F.L. The choice, made with Schwellenbach's approval, also appeared to choke off the longtime ambition of White House Adviser Steelman to succeed the hapless...
...would start another college when it got too big." St. John's, which graduated only seven students during one wartime year, expects to enroll 225 students this September-an all-time high. Barr has agreed to stick around until a St. John's "insider" is picked to succeed...