Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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There is an erroneous idea among people un-informed-it may be in the mind of your correspondent-that "producers send abroad pictures that cannot be shown in the United States." No producer could succeed if he failed to please audiences in this country...
...succeed Robert Henry Lucas, who resigned to become Executive Director of the G. O. P.. President Hoover appointed David Burnet to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Ten years a tax-collector, Mr. Burnet was promoted from deputy commissioner on merit, not politics...
...Deauville in the north, one John Factor, London diamond merchant, also attempted to succeed the Greeks, lost $360,000 in four hours...
Tennessee. Democratic Senator William Emerson Brock, Chattanooga candy man, appointed to succeed the late Lawrence Davis Tyson, was nominated for the short Senate term (to 1931) over Dr. John R. Neal, Knoxville attorney in the famed Scopes ("monkey") trial at Dayton. He will oppose F. Todd Meacham, Republican senatorial nominee, in November. For the Democratic nomination for the full Senate term Congressman Cordell Hull of Carthage and Andrew L. Todd were prime candidates. Congressman Hull, 58, Spanish War Veteran, entered the House in 1907, became a potent member of its Ways & Means Committee, wrote the first income...
...Rich School (plant value: $800,000). But no such embarrassment is suffered by big-boned, energetic Headmaster John Wayne Richards, called "Big Dick" by younger faculty members and his 207 boys when out of earshot. Seventeen years ago he left the faculty of Hotchkiss School (Lakeville, Conn.) to succeed William Mather Lewis-now President of Lafayette College-as L. F. A.'s Headmaster. He brought Hotchkiss ideas about running a successful school; new boys even became known, Hotchkisswise, as "bo-jacks." A Yaleman, he started sending his boys to Eastern colleges. L. F. A.'s future brightened...