Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice President, and during the last ten years as President of the Company. The man whom Mr. Coolidge chose for his expression of policy is known, even among railroad presidents, for the tenacity with which he clings to his convictions. He worked hand in glove with James McCrea*, his predecessor as head of the Pennsylvania, but failed after long efforts to cooperate with other railways in building a bridge across the Hudson at Manhattan. Then, carrying on the project for the Pennsylvania alone, he tunneled the North and East Rivers, and built the Pennsylvania Station and the famous Hell Gate...
...endeavors to avert abject cessation of passive resistance in the Ruhr, there was one concession that Chancellor Stresemann always refused to make; there could be, he declared, no surrender of a foot of German territory. Speaking a few weeks ago at Marseilles, former Premier Briand, M. Poincare's immediate predecessor, declared that in the whole Franco-German problem, the question of security for France came first and the question of Reparations second. Relinquishing his position as a moderate critic of the government, he stated that under present conditions there could be only support for those at the head...
Herr Rudolf Hilferding, Finance Minister, delved into the accounts of his predecessor, Dr. Andreas Hermes. He informed Chancellor Stresemann that he had discovered evidence of " the biggest graft case in Germany's political history." Herr Stresemann decided to have the former Finance Minister arrested. It is expected- perhaps in vain-that Herr Hugo Stinnes' financial peregrinations will be exposed...
Last week Chancellor Stresemann addressed the National Association of German Chambers of Commerce at a luncheon given in his honor at Berlin. In his speech the Chancellor reneved his predecessor's offer to the Allies, reaffirmed Germany's determination to guard her sovereignty, avoided reference to passive resistance...
...name of Congressman R. B. Creager of Texas is mentioned for the post of Ambassador, inasmuch as President Harding was known to favor Mr. Creager?a former neighbor of his at Marion, O. It is " understood " that Mr. Coolidge will follow his predecessor's intention; but predictions about the new President are unreliable...