Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois. Lucretia Garfield stands resolutely erect, prepared for tragedy. Edith Carow Roosevelt placidly reads her book. Only the faintest notes of discord jar the harmony among the ghostly ladies in the Smithsonian gallery. Pale Ellen Axson Wilson has joined Mmes Taft and Roosevelt in their glass case, while her successor, Edith Boiling Gait Wilson stands with Florence Kling Harding and Grace Goodhue Coolidge, whose short skirt and sorority pin would have mystified many in that quiet company...
...stocks which Wall Street couldn't quite share, but he made his contributions to the achievements of the Administration." Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis was "quick-acting, a good fellow. He has not been found guilty of any crime in connection with the Moose. His successor [the late William Nuckles Doak] was of a little higher type, I think...
Another syndicate was formed in 1930 to buy 1,000 shares of County Trust so that the directors could offer the inducement of an option to Orie Kelly whom they wanted as a successor to Mr. Riordan. The stock declined, however, and Mr. Kelly let his option lapse. Once again the members were called upon to take up their stock and the loan was paid off. So suavely precise, so frank with his facts was Mr. Raskob that even the Senators could find no fault with his story...
...Congress rather than of an executive department and dictated by the emergency arising out of the impounding of gold during the bank holiday. A second instance of turnabout face is not so easy to defend. The withdrawal of Mr. Acheson serves to emphasize the perplexities that confront his successor. In fact the Treasury of the United States will have to get some help from President Roosevelt by way of assurances and pledges if future government securities are not to be driven downward in the markets of the world and if a way is to be found to get money...
...Congress rather than of an executive department and dictated by the emergency arising out of the impounding of gold during the bank holiday. A second instance of turnabout face is not so easy to defend. The withdrawal of Mr. Acheson serves to emphasize the perplexities that confront his successor. In fact the Treasury of the United States will have to get some help from President Roosevelt by way of assurances and pledges if future government securities are not to be driven downward in the markets of the world and if a way is to be found to get money...