Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...since Dec. 28, 1835, when President Andrew Jackson nominated Roger Brooke Taney of Maryland as Chief Justice to succeed John Marshall has a nominee for this highest judicial post been more severely flayed in the Senate than Mr. Hughes. Taney was opposed for just the reverse of the reasons advanced against Mr. Hughes. He was a Southern Democrat whom such Whigs as Clay and Webster denounced as "a tool of Jacksonian power"-just as Mr. Hughes was denounced as "a tool of Hooverian power." Progressives charged Mr. Hughes with favoring monopoly; Whigs excoriated Taney for opposing it. Both were conceded...
Last week Frank Leslie Smith of Dwight, Ill., announced his candidacy as Republican Representative-at-large to succeed Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick who is running for the senatorial nomination in the April primaries (TIME, Jan, 27). As all the world knows, Mr. Smith, now a Class B Candidate, was elected to the Senate in 1926 only to be rejected by that body because of improper campaign contributions and excessive expenditures...
Appointed. Edgar Stephenson Furniss, Ph. D., 39, Chairman of the Department of Economics, Sociology & Government at Yale University; to be Dean of Yale Graduate School; to succeed Wilbur Lucius Cross, 67, retiring...
Resigned. James Milliken Speers. 66, board chairman of James McCutcheon & Co., Manhattan linen merchants; from the presidency of that company; on the 50th anniversary of his arriving from Ireland and joining the firm. To succeed him was appointed William Charles McCutcheon...
Further business included the election of a new president, Louis B. Dailey, who was nominated a month ago (TIME, Jan. 27), to succeed Samuel Collom, of Philadelphia: the publication of the ten best men and ten women players, as follows...