Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain. France, Belgium and Czechoslovakia had formally asked the U. S. to suspend $118,436,438 in debt payments due Dec. 15 and simultaneously to authorize a reconsideration of their total $8,443,000,000 War debt principal. Because he was going out of office President Hoover called his successor to Washington to help formulate a continuing national policy. Governor Roosevelt's stipulation was that the meeting be "informal and personal." The next President was ready to discuss and confer but he was unwilling to commit himself to a major foreign program three months before taking office. President Hoover...
...President Hoover held his first full Cabinet meeting in three months to consider economies. Members pondered the problem for two hours. Next day President Hoover called them back to the first extraordinary Cabinet session during his term, told them he was determined to turn the Government over to his successor with a balanced budget. Unless taxes were to be upped, expenditures must come far down. After the meetings the President declared that 1934 appropriations would be reduced by $700,000,000. ¶ President Hoover signed a formal request for the extradition of Samuel Insull from Greece. ¶ Received...
...Jersey Representative Oscar Auf der Heide of West New York was elected president of $1,235,000 Elizabeth Brewing Corp. A successor to the old Peter Breidt brewery, Congressman Auf der Heide's concern has a real beer capacity of 200,000 bbl. per year...
...next month or two. Obviously undergraduate opinion on the men best fitted for the Presidency cannot be well enough informed to be taken seriously. Perhaps it is presumptuous for undergraduates to make even general suggestions. What is said here will scarcely help the Corporation to find a worthy successor to President Lowell. It is said as the expression of a strong feeling among a number of undergraduates about the sort of man whom they would like to see at the head of Harvard. What is said looks wholly toward the future and has no reference to President Lowell's great...
...Before it was silenced by Governor Roosevelt the Press of the land had lugged out all the Democratic Cabinet timber available. Public interest centered chiefly around the State and Treasury portfolios. Last week Secretary of State Stimson announced that he was ready to coach his successor as soon as he was appointed. For this No. i job President-elect Roosevelt, weak on foreign affairs, needs a particularly able Secretary with an expert international knowledge. President Harding had such a man in Charles Evans Hughes. The favorite candidate for Democratic Secretary of State, at least with the Press, is Owen...