Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Truman should die in office, his successor would be the Secretary of State, under the Presidential Act of 1886. The fact that as of today that man would be young, enthusiastic Ed Stettinius, had only an incidental meaning to many a U.S. citizen...
...week an old White House adviser criticized the Act itself, urged that something be done about it. Said James A. Farley, onetime Democratic National Chairman: "Under our present method, a Vice President who succeeds to the Presidency is in the unique position of being able to choose his own successor-without reference to the electorate...
...really decisive conference took place in late afternoon. It lasted only about 15 minutes. Present were Hitler, Martin Bormann, successor to Hess as the F&252hrer's personal representative, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Colonel General Alfred Jodl. All others were sent away except the two stenographers...
...watch himself (he gave up smoking at 81, drinking at 92). But he kept busy. On the day he signed the lease, he had also to go across the hall to see capable, 36-year-old Willard Cole, Hub executive Vice President and Lytton's probable successor. Then there were ads to be criticized, brief conferences with store executives, additions to the list of invitations to his 99th birthday party (July...
Died. Marshall Headle, 52, who trained U.S. Army flyers in World War I, and as successor to the late Wiley Post as Lockheed Aircraft's top test pilot tested some 300 different types of plane (including the P-38 Lightning on its maiden flight) with out once having to bail out ; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif...