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Article II of the U. S. Constitution states that "Congress may by law provide for the case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as President." In 1886, the 49th Congress formally established Presidential succession among the Cabinet officers, based on seniority of their portfolios. Last week Franklin Roosevelt was 6,000 miles away in Buenos Aires, farthest any U. S. President had ever got from his White House desk. In hypothetical command of the nation was little old John Nance Garner who last week returned to Washington...
...looking up relatives in Ireland, his position fell to ailing Secretary of the Navy Swanson, with Secretary of the Interior Ickes bringing up the rear. Agriculture's Wallace, Commerce's Roper, Labor's Perkins were no nearer the Presidency than they had ever been. When the 49th Congress fixed the order of Cabinet succession, their offices had not been created...
Sixty schools, led by Andover, Class A winner last year, have entered a total of 651 athletes in the 49th Annual Harvard Interscholastic Track and Field meet which will be held in the Stadium today with the events starting at 1 o'clock...
...Puerto Rican Senate last week adopted (11-to-3) a House resolution which made territorial history. For the first time the insular legislature petitioned the Congress in Washington to call a constitutional convention for the admission of Puerto Rico to the Union as the 49th State. The three opponents of the resolution were Liberals who demanded not Statehood but Independence. The argument for Statehood: it would insure peace and plenty. The argument against: it would mean economic ruin and degrade Puerto Rico's "national soul...
From a house on Manhattan's East 49th Street last week went news which joined Abby Rockefeller Milton; Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess Szechenyi; Anna Roosevelt Dall; Antoinette Heckscher. Lady Esher; Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell Thayer; Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst and many another rich & famed socialite in common sorrow. Dead at 70 lay the awesome ruler of each one's girlhood, Miss Chapin, founder and longtime headmistress of Manhattan's smartest school for girls...