Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went over until after March 4. In his special message to Congress last fortnight President Hoover said he wanted to make a combined attack on debts, disarmament and world economics by means of an executive commission. To that end he proposed again to seek the co-operation of his successor who, after their White House meeting of last November, had already refused to support his methods. Between the White House and the Executive Mansion at Albany a four-day exchange of telegrams, each as coldly polite as any diplomatic note from nation to nation, charted the course of the disagreement...
This historic interchange between a Republican President and his Democratic successor not only revealed the mental abyss separating the two men but also stirred Washington and Albany to hot political resentment. The Hoover camp felt that Governor Roosevelt was afraid to join forces with the President because he did not want to exhibit publicly his own lack of a debt plan. "I-told-you-so" Republicans chortled about their pre-election predictions that President Hoover's defeat would produce just such a hiatus in economic recovery...
...mere chance Citizen Herriot picked up a copy of the 1932 budget which passed the Chamber under Premier Pierre Laval last February and passed the Senate under M. Laval's successor Premier Andre Tardieu. Thumbing through this ancient document-which dates from before the death of Aristide Briand (TIME, March 14); before the French general election which made M. Herriot premier; before the assassination of President Paul Doumer and the election of his successor President Albert Lebrun (TIME, May 16) -thumbing through the hoary pages of the bygone budget, M. Herriot came upon an item...
...default" such terms as "invite" and "defer" are highly attractive. The Chamber, groggy after 14 hours debate, voted 380-to-57 to "invite" and to "defer," then yawned and stumbled off to beds. Dog-tired M. Herriot was already asleep, snored all morning while President Lebrun searched for his successor...
...counsel does not cease with the proof of success. There is no question that the President's policy has rained the educational standards of the average man. But the founder attempts to delude neither himself nor his successor. The ideal embraced move than the improvement of the average; for were it to stop there, were there no means to encourage the full development of exceptional ability, mediocrity would be in inevitable character and ultimate frustration. President Lowell reiterates his plan for the foundation of the Society of Fellows...