Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that his Plan seemed headed for defeat, to beg him to accept a compromise. Polls continued to show the Senate so evenly split that forecasters were suggesting that Vice President Garner might have to break a tie. And many a loyal Administrationist feared that though the President might still succeed in ramming his Plan through intact, in doing so he would "win the battle and lose the war" by splitting his Party beyond repair. Already it was plain that resentment against the Court Plan had put Congress into a negative, do-nothing temper...
...their offices. Valencia's politicos paid little attention. Air raids were an everyday matter: here was a different kind of crisis. Everybody expected Premier Largo Caballero to succeed himself, everybody knew why he had forced out his own Cabinet...
...received 26% more from coal shipments last year than in 1935. Since the Lehigh is primarily a coal-carrier, this meant Recovery. With coal & steel booming on merrily, last week rugged Edward Eugene Loomis, president of the road for 20 years, retired to become board chairman. Elected to succeed him was Scottish-born Duncan John Kerr, a rail-road man since 1904, when he arrived in the U. S. with a degree in engineering from the University of Glasgow. With Great Northern Ry. from 1910 to 1936, Mr. Kerr was assistant to the vice president in charge of operations...
Feeling that University students only get a chance to express their opinion about spinach, the foreign debt, likeliness to succeed, and such matters, the Blanchard-Dorner publicity bureau are asking the twelve outstanding colleges in the country to conduct a poll to determine the most beautiful blonde in America...
...ratio of silver and gold. More lasting than any of these has been Denver's trouble with transport. Founded in 1858, this roaring frontier town presently grew into one of the West's most important cities, with some 300,000 inhabitants. But not until 1934 did it succeed in getting on a transcontinental railroad. That year, with a wild barbecue and great civic jubilation, Denver finally holed through the Moffat Tunnel under the continental divide, got a direct train route to the East.* Meanwhile, all other major U. S. cities were taking places in the spreading network...