Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg, was put in the embarrassing position of having to initiate policies that properly belonged to his successor. However, President Hoover relieved Mr. Kellogg's embarrassment as far as possible by announcing that the Mexican policy of the Coolidge administration would be continued. Secretary Kellogg shuttled back and forth to the White House daily to consult the President, and likewise conferred with the new Secretary of War, Mr. Good...
...appointive officials hold office until their successor is appointed and qualifies by taking the oath of office, unless there is a specific law to the contrary. In the case of the Postmaster General there is such a law-he must be reappointed and confirmed every four years even if the same administration continues in office. †As late as last September (TIME, Sept. 17) Mr. Mellon declared that although he had once owned stock in a distillery, the company had ceased manufacturing three years before prohibition came into effect and he had disposed of the stock before becoming Secretary...
...preliminary to the actual opening of Harvard's spring football practice, all candidates for the gridiron squad will meet tomorrow night in the Varsity Club at 7.15 o'clock, it was announced yesterday by W. P. Lage '30, successor to W. S. Youngman '29 as manager of the team...
...Trotsky had contracted pneumonia, summoned a specialist from Berlin. In describing how Stalin was able to seize supreme power, Trotsky declares that, during Lenin's last and protracted illnesses, the present dictator organized a veritable camarilla of self-seekers who conspired secretly against Trotsky (Lenin's logical successor) and took advantage of the fact that Trotsky himself was often ill to foment against him an opposition so strong that when Lenin died Oppositionist Stalin was able gradually to oust Trotskyists from their posts and finally to seize the government...
When the Senate on Tuesday confirmed the Cabinet nominations of President Hoover, the University was free to announce that it had accepted Mr. Adam's resignation and appointed Mr. Shattuck as his successor...