Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oath, Mr. Britt stops himself from claiming that Atchison ever became President-because Atchison never took the oath. The presidential succession law did not apply to the situation on Sunday March 4. Under the law then in force, the president pro tem of the Senate (Mr. Atchison) was to succeed only in case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice President; inability, that is, "to discharge the powers and duties of the said office." But Taylor was not unable to serve thus as President. If some emergency had arisen demanding presidential action without delay...
Since France is no longer a monarchy, the present dauphin or "crown prince" is?in political jargon?the man most likely to succeed stern, grizzled Raymond Poincaré as Prime Minister of France.* Just now Le Dauphin is by nearly unanimous consent M. Andre Pierre Gabriel Amedee Tardieu, called the "Most American of Frenchmen," brilliant, egotistical, dynamic, and holding the portfolio of Minister of Interior...
...political tangle which precipitated Merry del Val on his so-glittering early career. Cardinal Rampolla was expected to succeed to the papacy when Leo XIII died in 1903. But objections were raised and the election finally went to Giuseppe Sarto, a simple priest, peasant by birth, peasant-hearted to the end of his days...
Frisco. Whatever effect his opinions might have on the color of the World's columns, voluntary or involuntary, it was agreed that in all the technicalities of the job Renaud was well equipped to succeed his vociferous predecessor...
Elected. Dr. James Kieran to be President of Hunter College, Manhattan, largest U. S. woman's college, to succeed retiring President Dr. George Samler Davis...