Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston the 119th annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association (62,-000 communicants) elected Ohio's Senator Harold H. Burton as moderator to succeed Dr. Philip C. Nash, president of the University of the City of Toledo. An expected row between the right and left wing Unitarians never came off. The issue: leftist Unitarians want Unitarianism declared a non-Christian religion with the emphasis placed on humanitarianism...
...Arcs. Four months ago "Vinegar Joe" started out from Ledo in India on the first lap of the campaign that few thought would succeed. He had about two divisions of American-trained Chinese and a group of American and Chinese guerrilla fighters led by Brigadier General Frank Merrill. As Stilwell fought his way southeast through rugged country and equally rugged Japanese, engineers followed close behind, building a macadam highway...
...seems that the monarchists have fallen into the background. Some months ago it looked as if they would succeed in at least temporarily setting up the crown, that it would then be succeeded by a republic. This situation has taken a sharp turn toward republicanism...
Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary will have a new president in July 1945. At the Seminary's 108th commencement last week it was announced that tall, able, energetic Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, professor of systematic theology, will succeed Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, who has been president for 19 years. Dr. Coffin will have reached 68, Union's retirement age, next June...
Collier's got a new editor last week. To succeed the late Charles Colebaugh, a Collier's man for 27 years who died last week, Publisher William Ludlow Chenery chose a comparative newcomer: 42-year-old Henry La Cossitt. Big-shouldered, vigorous Henry La Cossitt has been Collier's managing editor for a mere four months, has been associated with the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (as fiction editor of the American Magazine) only three years...