Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anti-export side stood former Governor Ralph Owen Brewster (1925-29). No good friends are ex-Governors Brewster and Baxter. More than once has Baxter accused Brewster of being a Ku Kluxer. More than once has Brewster implied that Baxter is dull if not dreadful. Each hopes to succeed Maine's Senator Arthur Robinson Gould in next year's election. These two sunk their teeth into the power export bill and pulled in opposite directions. Last week Maine defeated power export by a majority of some 10,000 votes in 125,000 cast...
Metallic Gas. "It may be possible to run the automobile of the future on a gas of great power and volume produced by a handful of a peculiar metal and a small tank of peculiar gas." dreamily predicted Chicago's Robert G. Guthrie, nominated to succeed Cleveland's Zay Jeffries as President of the American Society for Steel Treating, sponsors of the Congress. Mr. Guthrie's prediction followed his exposition on special furnaces in which gases are used to surface steel. Metals absorb gases, a phenomenon only now being put to industrial use. Konel Metal. News...
...Began debate on the tariff bill. ¶ Saw William E. Brock, Chattanooga candy man, appointed to succeed the late Senator Tyson, sworn in as a Senator from Tennessee...
...assured him it was out of the kind- ness of my heart that I wished him to continue his efforts, as I was sure he would succeed...
Certain it is that the branch banking advocates will try to have the law modified to permit branch banking throughout the country. If they succeed, it is certain that some of the chains now being created will be converted into branch banking systems. But whether chains or branches eventually come out on top, the developments in the Northwest last week show clearly the tendency of modern banking not only to step outside of municipal boundaries, but to cross state lines. That was where last week's wind was blowing...