Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last September when Huston became the G. O. P.'s national chairman-highest party post in the land-to succeed Dr. Hubert Work, he resigned as head...
This rally, however, was not entirely due to the Young Plan signing and President von Hindenburg's statement. Chosen to succeed disgruntled Dr. Schacht as President of the Reichsbank (TIME, March 17) was Dr. Hans Luther, twotime Chancellor of Germany and Minister of Finance...
...honorary pallbearers. Congress adjourned. Washington was enveloped in mourning. ¶. It took President Hoover's Haiti Commission less than a week of investigating at Port-au-Prince to forward its first and most important recommendation to the White House. The recommendation: Selection of a temporary neutral President to succeed Louis Borno, to be followed by a general election, the restoration of representative government, the withdrawal of the U.S. high commissioner and the marine occupation force. President Hoover approved this plan...
With all the strength that was in her proud soul, with all the ingenuity of a mother championing the dignity of her dead son, Alexandra tried to prevent the match between Georgie and May. But how could she succeed when against her were arrayed triumphant Obstinacy, personified by Queen Victoria, and triumphant Cynicism in the person of Alexandra's own husband, later Edward VII? It is reported on excellent authority that the Great Cynic laughed at his wife: "You are a sentimentalist, Alix, I am glad May is not. One in the family is enough...
Equitable. In 1871 Traders Deposit Co. was begun with a $16,000 capital. In 1902, Equitable Trust Co. with capital of $1,000,000 was chartered to succeed Traders Deposit Co. Although Equitable has long been known as a Rockefeller bank, this was forcefully brought out when Winthrop Williams Aldrich was elected its president (TIME, Dec. 30). Before this, Banker Aldrich, a Rockefeller-in-law, had been connected with the bank as its counsel and had received further Rockefeller business when he handled the ousting of Standard Oil of Indiana's famed Robert Wright Stewart. Upon his Equitable election...