Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty Sioux Indians headed by three chiefs clasped President Coolidge's hand. At their head was Chief Standing Bull, successor and relative of the late Sitting Bull. Chief Antelope and Chief Hollow Horn, who took part in the Custer Massacre of '76, were also in the party. The redmen were in Washington on account of certain property claims in the Black Hills...
...Secretary Slemp slipped into the White House Office Building for a day on returning from Florida to clean up his desk and leave it neat for his successor...
Speaker Gillett and smiling Representative Longworth, his successor-to-be entered, followed by other Representatives, among them Mrs. Mae Nolan of California, retiring. Miss Alice Robertson of Oklahoma, who retired from the House two years ago was with the group. The Representatives took some time in crowding in, finding seats, and arranging themselves, or standing around the rear of the Chamber. During this interval, the Supreme Court stood in the corridor without, waiting. Ambassadors and Ministers, the Cabinet, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Supreme Court were...
...elected, Chancellor Luther would be in the same sort of situation as was the Pooh-Bah in Gilbert & Sullivan's famed Mikado, viz: Luther as Chancellor would be obliged to tender his resignation to himself as President and having accepted his own resignation would have to find a successor for himself as Chancellor...
When 1894 came along, Chile was having boundary difficulties with Argentina ; Peru was turned upside down over the election of a successor to President Morales Bermudez. A plebiscite was then impossible. In after years, several unsuccessful attempts were made to settle the dispute; and an ugly situation was rapidly being created when U. S. President Harding suggested that the case be brought to Washington and submitted to arbitration. This offer was accepted and President Coolidge has made his award...