Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the man that shrewd Manuel Quezon, the first President of the Philippine Commonwealth,* had trained and picked to succeed him. Roxas had beaten aging President Sergio Osmeña in the election last April. On him the whole moral and physical rehabilitation of the war-devastated islands depended. He would have to give the Republic credit, a face, a mind, perhaps even a heart. He was not exactly starting from scratch, but it would be a long pull...
...silly-season whoop-te-do over Washington's radio station WRC. Senator Claude Pepper bravely tooted his harmonica, Congressman James Percy Priest struggled with a guitar, a quartet sang, but Taylor and his banjo took the cake with Cowboy Joe from Idaho. As the legislator "most likely to succeed in radio," he got $100 from Senator Claghorn-in Confederate money, that...
...Treasury. To succeed him in the Treasury, the President nominated the man who had twice before come in behind Vinson as he moved upward-Reconversion Boss John Wesley Snyder, a virtual unknown until Harry Truman moved to the White House. John Snyder and Harry Truman were buddies in World War I. They are the closest of cronies now. Perhaps that fact alone was enough for the President to pick him for the second "highest Cabinet post (and second in succession to the presidency...
...clerked. This didn't prevent him from graduating, at 16, with top honors in a class of 2,000 from Northeast High School-or from being class president, yearbook editor, prom chairman, debating captain and a member of the track team. That he was voted most-likely-to-succeed was anticlimactic...
That is what I pray we may yet succeed in doing...