Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

Builder Eddie Carr of Washington, past president of NAHB, cut his bricklaying costs $150 a house by adopting the `` SCR masonry process '' worked out after careful time-&-motion studies by the Structural Clay Products Research Foundation to help bricklayers do better work for less.

So when old Mr. Lovejoy, the company president, talked about putting in a single sales manager for both branches after the head of the regular steels had gone with Carnegie-Illinois, it looked like the perfect chance for Bobbie.

When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.

* 1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding

In November 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president after a campaign that promised American superiority over the Soviet Union in the fields of space exploration and missile defense.

Congressmen began to talk informally of impeaching the president after his veto of the Civil Rights Act.

He is the only former president to serve in the Senate after serving as president.

In 1992, Blaise Compaoré was elected president, running unopposed after the opposition boycotted the election because of Compaoré's refusal to accede to demands of the opposition such as a sovereign National Conference to set modalities.

In March 1933, one month after the Reichstag fire, the then president, Paul von Hindenburg, a retired war hero, gave Hitler ultimate power through Enabling Act of 1933, he remained at the post of Federal Government Chancellor ( though he called himself the Führer ).

A bishop is the president of the Aaronic priesthood in his ward ( and is thus a form of Mormon Kohen ; in fact, a literal descendant of Aaron has " legal right " to act as a Bishop after being found worthy and ordained by the First Presidency ).

In 1950, Olive Ann Beech was installed as president and CEO of the company, after the sudden death of her husband from a heart attack on 29 November of that year.

He also accepted the title of president after Keelty resigned in mid-December 1959.

It was named after Nathanael Burwash, a former president of Victoria.

Following a constitutional referendum of July 2000, the president of the CNSP decided to run for president, and indeed declared himself president after the elections of 22 October 2000.

Finally, however, after popular unrest Laurent Gbagbo became president and was sworn in on 26 October 2000.

Citizen exhaustion due to the conflict's newfound intensity led to the election of president Belisario Betancur ( 1982 – 1986 ), a Conservative who won 47 % of the popular vote, directed peace feelers at all the insurgents, and negotiated a 1984 cease-fire with the FARC and M-19 after a 1982 release of many guerrillas imprisoned during the previous effort to overpower them.

Soon after that, in May 2002, the former liberal politician of conservative leanings Álvaro Uribe, whose father had been killed by left-wing guerrillas, was sworn in as Colombian president.

Ernest joined Textron after 29 years at GE, where he had most recently served as vice president and general manager, global supply chain for GE Aviation.

Egyptian president Sadat in 1979 after signing of Camp David peace accord severed military and economic relations with the USSR ( by that time the USSR provided a lot of assistance to Egypt and supported it in all its military operations against Israel ).

Aptidon resigned as president 1999, at the age of 83, after being elected to a fifth term in 1997.

The deployment came in response to the urgent request of Lebanese president Camille Chamoun after sectarian violence had erupted in the country.

The railroad president made the statement in an interview as the Interstate Commerce Commission opened Round 2 of its hearing into the C & O's request to control and then merge with the B & Aj.

C & O president Walter J. Tuohy was summoned back for cross-examination by New York Central attorneys before examiner John Bradford who is hearing the complex case.

On hearing of his nomination as vice president, he announced that he was not surprised, as " Indiana is the mother of Vice Presidents ; home of more second-class men than any other state.

Upon hearing of this atrocity, the president of the United States, who is running for re-election, feels compelled to take drastic measures against drug trafficking ; his challenger, J. Robert Fowler, has rallied the public behind the administration's failures in the War on Drugs.

Harris, president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, invited him to join her family after hearing he would be reprising the role of Tonto as a Comanche in Lone Ranger, a feature film scheduled for 2013 release.

WBO president Francisco Varcarcel said he viewed that comment as a public resignation and declared the title vacant without holding a hearing or notifying López.

After his morning show on NBC got cancelled in October 1980 after only 18 weeks on the air, David Letterman was still held in sufficient regard by the network brass ( especially NBC president Fred Silverman ) that upon hearing the 33-year-old comedian is being courted by a syndication company, NBC gave him a $ 20, 000 per week deal to sit out a year and guest-host a few times on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.

Jacques Chirac ( who said, upon hearing of Senghor's death: " Poetry has lost one of its masters, Senegal a statesman, Africa a visionary and France a friend ") and Lionel Jospin, respectively president of the French Republic and the prime minister, did not attend.

" By Wednesday, May 16, 2007, The New York Times, reported that " after six weeks of fighting efforts to oust him as president ... Wolfowitz began today to negotiate the terms of his possible resignation, in return for the bank dropping or softening the charge that he had engaged in misconduct ..." After expressions from the Bush administration that it " fully " supported Wolfowitz as World Bank president and its urging a " fair hearing " for him, President Bush expressed " regret " at Wolfowitz's impending resignation.

Upon hearing the news that Salvador Allende had been elected president of Chile, he proclaimed that " not a nut or bolt shall reach Chile under Allende.

Before a bill can be enacted, it must be referred by the president of the council to an appropriate standing committee, considered at a public hearing and public meeting, reported out by the committee, printed as reported by the committee, distributed to the members of the council, and made available to the public.

However, the ministers decided that a private hearing was required by " state policy ," he announced this conviction to the president of the court martial ; such an announcement was equivalent to an order.

2009 brought an announcement that he would be working on his third album amidst his regrets over hearing Jay-Z had stepped down as Def Jam president.

The company president, hearing this, decides to send Olimar and his co-worker Louie to seek out the planet where they quickly reunite with the Pikmin creatures, who help in scavenging the treasures, in order to pay off the debt.

All major party heads take the day off after hearing of his death as a sign of respect for the former president.

At the handover, IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch gave him a commemorative Olympic medal in a box, to which the hard of hearing Prieste responded, " What is it?

The court granted a temporary injunction pending a hearing, and according to Brookfield senior vice president of communications and media, Andrew Willis, the firm cancelled its offer to acquire the property.

McKeehan is the president of Gotee Records, and the one who signed Relient K to a record deal after hearing their demo.

Superior Court Judge F. Pendleton Gaines III issued an order to show cause for the president of ASU and for the director of the CPD to appear in court for a hearing on October 12, a day before the scheduled debate.

The invasion force was recalled at the last minute after word that the Haitian president had resigned upon hearing that the aircraft were on their way.

Shortly after the decision of the joint advisory panel, the president of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology ( IAOMT ) wrote to the FDA to ask for an expanded review of current science on dental amalgams, a definitive date for such a hearing, and a format that will assure that the full breadth of health effects is assessed.

Amy Ridenour shown testifying before a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee on June 22, 2005, in regards to her involvement in the Jack Abramoff scandal. Amy Moritz Ridenour ( born 1959 ), president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a Washington, DC conservative think tank.

At an October 1997 deposition hearing, Eric Kronfeld, president and chief operating officer of Island's parent company PolyGram, was asked why he had hired such an individual.