Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...President Hoover . . . must contemplate the genuine possibility that he will not succeed himself. . . . The incentive to break the precedents and perform a political miracle will be very strong in President Hoover's entourage. ... If that miracle is to be accomplished, there would be just one way to go about it: by abandoning all personal interest in 1932. His one chance is to be President in his own right from now on. . . . Mr. Hoover . . . has lost a very great deal of his power. Has he not gained a great deal of freedom...
...seems to us that he might very well say to himself now: Fate plus errors of judgment have deprived me of legislative power ... by all the precedents I shall not succeed myself . . . certainly I face a strong opposition even to my own renomination. But I am still President of the United States and for the two years that are left, I propose to be President in the full sense of the word. ... I cannot lead Congress. ... I shall lead the nation as my real convictions dictate. ... If I am to be denied a second term, I cannot be denied...
...There probably is no doubt that Lord Thomson thought it would be a striking, dramatic feat to accomplish a flight to India [where he was to succeed Lord Irwin as viceroy] and come home in safety while the Imperial Conference was sitting." Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding said Lord Thomson had told him not to let his judgment be swayed by his (Lord Thomson's) eager ness to be off; but he showed a memorandum from Lord Thomson insisting upon a take-off early in October...
Thirty-three years ago the directors of Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich, held their first meeting. Last week the directorate held another epochal meeting. Their purpose: to elect a new president to succeed the late Dr. Herbert Henry Dow, founder of the company. Presiding over the meeting was Albert E. Convers, chairman, who has been with the company since its inception. Also at the meeting were Directors G. E. Collings and James T. Pardee, both of whom had been at the first meeting. Unanimously they voted that the presidency should be filled by Willard Henry...
Strategy in Handling People is a how-to-succeed book, using a novel technique. It relates a series of anecdotes and then moralizes in italics. Typical moral: "People are all different and must be treated differently." The worst that can be said about the book is that it draws heavily on the life of Benjamin Franklin. But its merit is that the anecdotes pertain to some 300 other people from Louisa M. Alcott to Adolph Zukor...