Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government of the Russian Soviet Republic ("Russia Proper") appointed, last week, an extraordinary "Grain Dictator" and requested the other state governments of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics ("Asiatic & European Russia") to appoint similar officials...
...sure that he always knows how to use that power. . . . "Stalin is too rough, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes insupportable in the office of general secretary. Therefore I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint to it another man who differs from Stalin-more patient, more loyal, more polite, and more attentive to comrades, less capricious." . . . Rugged Dictator Josef Stalin and facile Propagandist Nikolai Bukharin are striving and succeeding with a program of discrediting Trotsky in Russia. Every book or newspaper article concerning...
...royalty, snubbed by royalty's onetime subjects. Fresh from receptions in Bremen and Dublin, they flew to Doom, Holland, where Wilhelm II stood on the castle roof to wave them farewell with his one sound arm; thence to Cologne, Germany, where the city fathers, Kaiser-hating, failed to appoint a committee of welcome...
...Dear American friends, we humbly beg you to appoint some one who will abstain rigorously from sentimentalism and who quite simply from day to day will keep us informed as to what you really are thinking...
...interfere, having no authority to intervene in a wage controversy. The strike order, issued last week, was calculated to obtain action from the U. S. Board of Mediation, which is empowered to decide when an "emergency" exists in the U. S. transportation world and to request the President to appoint an emergency investigating commission. But last week the Board found no "emergency" in the porters' threat, presumably because the Pullman Co. announced that its service would be impaired no jot or tittle by a general walkout. The company said that hundreds of white men had applied for the Brotherhood...