Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Listened to Vice President Dawes while he read an epistle from Congressional Medalist Lindbergh inviting each & every Senator to fly with him last week*.¶ Amended, passed and sent to the House the Norris resolution ordering the War Department to complete and operate the Government's $140,000,000 wartime power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., on the Tennessee River, and ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. ¶ Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce...
...executives are not only permitted, but are required by custom to go before Parliament to explain and defend bills proposed by the party in power. In the U. S., political parties can, and regularly do, evade responsibility by shifting it, as may be convenient, from executive to legislative or vice versa...
...banquet held last night at the Commander Hotel, officers of the Flying Club for the year 1929 were elected. William Nelson Bump '28 of New Rochelle, New York, was re-elected president of the club. Robert Bogue Bell '30 of Noroton, Connecticut, was named vice-president. James Andrew Mars '29 of San Antonio, Texas, and Donald Merriam Leith '29 of Concord, were elected secretary and treasurer respectively...
...lectured the Childs Co.'s management at last week's annual meeting. Applause from stockholders was in all the greater contrast to the silence of the management. President and General Manager William Childs was absent. Neither were the du Pont interests (large stockholders) represented at the meeting. Vice President S. Willard Smith, facing the barrage of stockholders' criticism alone, in the absence of all the Childs-William, Luther, E. Ellsworth, William S., all directors-admitted that January, 1928, earnings were one-half of those of January, 1927. Stockholder Mathey said the loss was due to the restaurants...
...Vice President Smith replied: "Our outlook in the near future seems good." Nevertheless the stockholders adopted a motion of adjournment to some date within the next three months when President William Childs would be on hand "to answer queries...