Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physician, prepared to return to Washington. Everett Sanders, former Secretary to the President, went to Chicago to become a partner in the law firm from which James W. Good retired to become Mr. Hoover's Secretary of War. Edward T. Clark, Mr. Coolidge's other secretary, became Vice President of Drug Inc., a subsidiary of United Drug Co., of which Louis Kroh Liggett, Republican National Committeeman of Massachusetts, is President...
...first morning of Herbert Hoover's administration, the Republicans of the Senate caucused to choose a new floor leader in place of Vice President Curtis. It had all been threshed out beforehand and the election fell upon the senior Senator from Indiana, the Honorable James...
...question Mr. Mellon's integrity. Mr. Mellon's spokesmen in the Senate let the McKellar resolution go through with patient annoyance. They expected the ouster movement would die a quiet death when the Judiciary Committee reports. For ten minutes during this brief session of the Senate, Vice President Curtis presided for the first time in his new capacity. He rapped with his gavel so often and so lustily that Senators began to grumble, to wonder whether he might prove to be other than the meek & mild presiding officer that he was expected to be. He had promised...
...large hotel enterprise, acquired French Lick Springs. With the other hand he ran politics. He managed the campaign of Alton Brooks Parker for President in 1904. In 1912 he started the swing to Wilson in the Baltimore convention and got Indiana's Thomas R. Marshall named for Vice President. In 1916 a governor whom he elected, Samuel Ralston, appointed him to the Senate. He was, however, defeated for election by James E. Watson (see page 11). Nonetheless he later elected Ralston to the Senate and in 1924 he was on the point of naming Ralston for the Presidency -after...
...Vice Admiral William Veazie Pratt, present Commander of the Battle Fleet, will replace Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet...