Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON POST AND TIMES HERALD: THE President could safely and advantageously ask Mr. Nixon to serve as acting President during the period while he is incapacitated. It would permit the business of the Government to move forward expeditiously and avoid the confusion and stagnation that has occurred during some presidential illnesses of the past. Once it were demonstrated that authority could be shifted to the Vice President on an acting basis and returned to the President without a hitch, future vice presidential candidates would then likely be chosen for their compatibility with the presidential candidate and not merely to lend...
...question arose in 1881 when James Garfield was shot in the back by a deranged lawyer in the Washington railroad terminal and lay disabled for 80 days. During that time he performed only one official act, signing an extradition paper. The Cabinet tried to cope with such problems as post-office fraud scandals and sagging foreign relations, considered urging Vice President Chester Alan Arthur to take over the functions and authority of the President during his disability, but feared the legal implications. The Government drifted until Garfield died...
...approached in the traditional manner, with coldly precise and mathematically measured accents. Defying convention, Richter brought a dynamic new approach to his Bach reading. His performances proved so brilliantly illuminating that he was offered the top job in the world of German Protestant church music, Bach's own post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig; Richter refused so he could stay in Munich, where he developed a fine 100-voice Bach choir. Gradually the critics became disenchanted. Richter, they felt, had slipped into sentimentality; worse, he seemed to be reaching too far out for effects and succeeding only in distorting...
Businessmen looking for clues to 1958 prospects closely watched pre-Christmas retail and auto sales. Both were encouraging. On the day after Thanksgiving, sales at Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, jumped nearly 8% above the post-Thanksgiving day last year. Chicago's State Street was so jammed with shoppers that the downtown police detail was doubled to 100 to control the crowd. In downtown Atlanta, retailers said sales were well ahead of last year. Los Angeles stores reported "very good" business...
...Simon Ramo, 44, executive vice president and secretary of Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., fast-growing Los Angeles electronics firm, gave up his post to become president of a new Ramo-Wooldridge division, the Space Technology Laboratories. The new Space division replaces Ramo-Wooldridge's Guided Missile Research Division, which is technical manager to the Air Force's ballistic-missile program, is designed to call attention to Ramo-Wooldridge's other divisions and functions by broadening its role to include non-Air Force work...