Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh, father of official No. 1 U. S. Hero. The late Congressman Lindbergh left his seat in 1917. Son Lindbergh then lacked ten years of the constitutional age (25) for House membership. Many have been the suggestions that Hero Lindbergh should now attempt to succeed to his father's old seat in Congress. Against these suggestions arise three mighty obstacles: 1) Col. Lindbergh lacks a Minnesota residence. 2) Short, smiling Harold Knutson who took the Lindbergh seat a dozen years ago is firmly entrenched in the Republican organization of the House where he serves Speaker...
...Irwin Boyle Laughlin, longtime diplomat, was appointed by President Hoover to succeed Ogden H. Hammond, resigned, as Ambassador to Spain...
...came in on election night last week, opposition members gravely I-told-you-soed, for Premier Bruce not only went down to defeat, but carried the entire Nationalist party with him. Late returns gave the Nationalists only 15 seats in the new Parliament to 46 for Labor. Chosen to succeed Stanley Bruce as Prime Minister of Australia was a sober middle-aged journalist and laborite, James Henry Scullin. As news of a Labor victory was broad cast, newsgatherers collected at the home of Australia's previous Labor Premier, Edward Theodore, likely candidate for the post of National Treasurer...
Benjamin Franklin Rice Bassett '25 of Flushing. Long Island, has been elected to the post of treasurer of the Philips Brooks House Committee, it was learned yesterday. Bassett will succeed W.J. Bingham '16, who has held the position for the last four years...
...Pierpont Morgan, of New York City, a graduate of Harvard College in 1889, and head of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Company, bankers, has been chosen as president of the Harvard Alumni Association for the current year, to succeed Allston Burr, '89, of Boston, according to an announcement made public today...