Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...silence on the tariff rose up to denounce him for speaking out against extravagance. President Hoover shifted his ground under this attack, appealed to the country at large to support economy. ¶ President Hoover selected John North Willys, onetime motorman, as U. S. Ambassador to Poland, to succeed the late Alexander Pollock Moore. ¶ With unemployment causing riotous disturbances throughout the land, President Hoover was pleased last week to receive a report from the public utility group of his business revival committee that utility building projects for 1930 would total $1,500,000,000. ¶ President Hoover, with Mrs. Hoover...
...Department of Justice is the Solicitor General, chief counsel for the Government, prime defender of the Constitution before the bar of the Supreme Court. To succeed Charles Evans Hughes Jr., resigned, in this post President Hoover surprisingly picked a man no one had thought of. He was Thomas Day Thacher, a judge of the U. S. District Court in Manhattan...
...succeed Mr. Hughes as a citizen board member, Charles Augustus Stone was chosen. Tall and spare and resolute, Mr. Stone is chairman of the board of Stone & Webster, Inc., which began as a humble partnership between himself and a Harvard classmate (TIME, July 8). Their engineers have constructed central plants which today supply one-sixth of all U. S. citizens with power and light. Under them also have risen great factories, hotels, schools, Army camps. In addition to their buildings, Stone & Webster, Inc. own and operate public utility services throughout the lands. Among the companies which they manage, in which...
Elected. Hunter S. Marston, 44; to be president of Bancamerica-BIair Corp.; to succeed Elisha Walker, lately elected board chairman of Transamerica Corp...
...Bolshevist movement in Russia will not succeed, it will crumble sooner or later unless we are prepared to throw overboard all that we know of, history, of economic law and of human nature," declared Mr. Michael Karpovich, lecturer in the Harvard History Department, in a recent interview...