Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There followed a few days in the Vice-Presidential suite at the New Willard Hotel and the wholesale resignation of the Cabinet - Hughes and Mellon, Hoover and Davis, New and Wallace, Work, Weeks, Daugherty and Denby - and every resignation rejected as it came. There followed the entrance into the White House with eight trunks, and the appearance of astute C. Bascom Slemp, Virginia politician-Secretary, at the Presidential elbow. Came William Morgan Butler, manufacturer and campaign manager, not yet dreaming of the Senate...
...citizens have forgotten the great three-cornered battle front of 1924, the Cleveland convention where the old guard in revolt named Frank O. Lowden for Vice-President and, when he proudly turned them down, revolted again and named Charles Gates Dawes, with whom afterwards they quarreled? Or that eleven-day wonder, the convention in the old Madison Square Garden where McAdoo fought Smith, and Smith fought McAdoo and Alabama 103 times cast 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood, till John William Davis and Bryan the Lesser were boosted to the limelight? Or that second convention in Cleveland to which...
...House and Senate, in joint session in the House's chamber, went through the ceremonious anachronism of counting the electoral vote and making the official discovery that Herbert Clark Hoover had been elected President, and Charles Curtis Vice President...
...Vice President Dawes was master of ceremonies. Senate Pages Milburn McCarty Jr. of Eastland, Tex., and John Gordon Logan, carried the two shiny mahogany boxes in which reposed the solemn electoral certificates. Page McCarty is a squint-eyed little boy with a round face, a slight lisp, freckles, a cowlick, and good teeth for apple-biting. He served the Brown Derby during the campaign as personal messenger. He wept honestly when Nominee Hoover was elected. Alert, respectful, he is the Senate's favorite page. Page Logan is Senator Smoot's grandson...
...Harvard Dramatic Club, at its meeting last night, elected a new staff of officers. The following were elected: President, Bernard David Hanighen '30 of Omaha. Nebr.; vice-president, Gerald Wallace Harrington '30, of Mattapoisett; secretary. Edward Trumbull Batchelder '30, of Salem. These three officers, together with Richard Hildreth Thompson '30, of Marblehead and Hollis Guptill Gerrish '30, of Somerville, will compose the executive board...