Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sechler Coxey, who with the remains of his army of unemployed and unshaven men was arrested for walking on the Capitol lawn in 1894, was nominated last week for President of the U. S. by the Interracial Independent Political Party. He is a Nordic. His running mate (candidate for Vice President) is a Negro: Simon P. W. Drew, president of the National Ministers' Alliance, pastor of the Cosmopolitan Baptist Institutional Church, president of a real estate company...
...voters themselves could have hoped to have chosen. Selecting a candidate for the most "important position in the world" as the croaking orators repeatedly informed them, the delegates were sheep-like if sincere in their tumultuous acclamation of Hoover. But the unusual choice of a defeated presidential possibility for vice president in the good fellow Curtis, and the amalgamation of Wall Street and the wheat growers by this happy union, may well dismay the brown derbied tiger as he passes out his slogan banded cigars...
...First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, a clear thinking moderate, who has never embroiled himself in the Fundamentalist v. Modernist controversy. He beat the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, by a vote of 593 to 318. The moderate moderator named a vice moderator to help him in administering the affairs of his church. This was the Rev. Joseph M. Broady of Birmingham...
When Mr. Durant went back to General Motors (1916) he insisted that Mr. Chrysler be vice-president. There was a quarrel over policy; Mr. Chrysler resigned. John North Willys figuratively clutched at him to work down Willys-Overland's $46,000,000 bank debt. Within less than a year the debt was down...
...coffee. He used twelve-pint coffee pots for brewing his blends. His eight sons and one daughter guard those pots as heirlooms. Two of these sons sell Dodge cars in Tennessee. The other six are officers in the business. J. Will Neal and his son, J. Robert Neal, are vice presidents at Houston where the company has one of its seven coffee-blending factories and distributing plants. President is Joel O. Cheek, 75. For two years now his sons have managed to keep him from working hard. But he is at the Nashville offices almost every...