Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oath. The presidential succession law did not apply to the situation on Sunday March 4. Under the law then in force, the president pro tem of the Senate (Mr. Atchison) was to succeed only in case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice President; inability, that is, "to discharge the powers and duties of the said office." But Taylor was not unable to serve thus as President. If some emergency had arisen demanding presidential action without delay, Taylor no doubt would have taken the necessary oath-his first duty as President-on Sunday...
...Fenimore Johnson, executive vice president of the Victor Company, made the announcement. First prize, he said, went for Two American Sketches to Thomas Griselle of Mount Vernon, N. Y., graduate (1911) of the Cincinnati College of Music, whose recent activities have been with special radio programs. Second prize has been awarded Rube Bloom of Brooklyn for his Song of the Bayou. Both, according to terms of the contract, are U. S. citizens. Each composition took less than five minutes when smartly played at the banquet by Nat Shilkret and his Victor orchestra. Next day both compositions were released...
...full-sized fiddle and has a reputation which might well be the envy of many a full-sized fiddler, his perform ance last week suffered in comparison with the younger Yehudi's. As before, critics marked his amazing virtuosity, but many detected signs of a precocious vice: striving for effect...
...Chief Chrysler has many an able assistant. Among them: Financial Vice President B. E. Hutchinson; Sales Vice President (and President of De Soto) J. E. Fields: Manufacturing Vice President K. T. Keller. These and others Mr. Chrysler has publicly thanked for their share in developing Chrysler Motors...
Charles W. Nash (Nash) with his vice president, Milton H. Pettit, personally handed out $807,000 in Christmas bonus checks to his 12,000 employes...