Word: dickinsons
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...powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the President and the Vice President ..." Even during the Constitutional Convention, Delaware's Delegate John Dickinson raised a troublesome point: What is meant by "inability," and who is to be the judge...
Chunky, hard-boiled Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa has shown remarkable talents in recent months both for getting into trouble and for wriggling out. Jimmy's latest wriggle: in Washington last week, U.S. District Judge F. Dickinson Letts lifted his own injunction barring Hoffa from taking office as Teamster president. At the Teamsters' marble-and-glass palace in Washington, Jimmy's secretary promptly started greeting telephone callers with a cheery "President Hoffa's office." But Hoffa was a president on a leash, and the other end was held by Judge Letts...
...Dist. Court Judge F. Dickinson Letts approved a settlement worked out by attorneys for the Teamsters Union and dissident members who had brought suit to block Hoffa's accession to the presidency...
...past year John went to Harvard, Don went to Dickinson College. When Middletown knew they were leaving we had a farewell dinner for them. I was present at this dinner. Middletown knew what they were losing. I defy anybody, even Bill Stern, to condemn John Yovicsin. I think Bill Stern owes John Yovicsin and Harvard an apology...
When the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 began to hammer out the language of Article II, Section I, Clause 6 (specifying conditions under which the Vice President assumes the presidency), Delaware's Delegate John Dickinson raised a troublous question. Asked Dickinson: What is meant by the term disability, and who is to be the judge of it? Dickinson got no answer. Last week, 170 years and 33 Presidents later, there was still no answer...