Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt last week appointed, to succeed Oliphant as general counsel of the Treasury, his friend Tommy Corcoran's friend Edward H. Foley Jr., 34, acting counsel since December...
...fairly be put into pigeon-holes. Nor can their opinions on a subject like tutoring at Harvard be accurately summed up in a flashy epigram. Each student thinks differently about it, and the collective opinion is a many-tentacled monster indeed. But in five succinct words, one student did succeed in roughly synthesizing the sentiments which the majority of his fellows nurse, and which they recorded in the Crimson poll...
...plan is to succeed in future years, it must not continue to be predicated on an impossibly romantic basis. Harvard students an masse will not voluntarily swallow an American History pill, no matter how heavily coated with sugar. Nor is a compulsory course a solution, striking as it does at the root of a college system which has only one common requirement for all its graduates: that they be able to write and swim. The plan faces two alternatives. It may become incorporated in the curriculum as an informally taught course in American Civilization. Or it may remain strictly extra...
...been sheltered, pampered and fostered. . . . We go on merrily and righteously nurturing our 'Aryan' imbeciles, morons and criminals, encouraging them to breed more of their kind, and supporting them at public expense. On the other hand, we persecute the Jews and try to destroy them, and actually succeed in preventing the survival of those who are not superior in wits and in constitution. Thus we make them better and better, while we get worse and worse...
...pocket by day, hid in a sugar bar rel at night. By 1925 he was vice president of Manhattan's National Park Bank. After it merged with Chase National, he became first president, then chairman, moving out when the Rockefellers bought control. > To succeed Charles McCain, United Light & Power chose another Yaleman 61-year-old William Gordon Woolfolk, president of Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. President Woolfolk was bounced from Yale for "one last unfortunate week which, as you might say, was rather alcoholic." > Frank E. Mullen, for five years manager of Radio Corp. of America's information department...