Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city manager system much resembles the structure of a business corporation. There is a city council or commission like a board of directors, elected by the people. The councilors or commissioners sometimes appoint a vestigial sort of mayor whose functions are chiefly social. Their important appointee is an executive who man ages the actual government and then tells the council or commission about...
...Illinois law under which the Chicago school system operates. His defense will set forth that the intention of the law was to make the superintendent of Chicago's schools, not a "hired man" of Chicago's school board, but an executive which the board is required to appoint, drawing an independent authority from the same source that created the school board, i.e. the state legislature. Should this distinction be successfully made, politics will actually be further removed from public education in Chicago than they were before the McAndrew case was contrived...
...RESOLVED by the House of Representatives, That the President of the United States be requested to appoint the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin an admiral in the Navy and to place him in command of the battleship West Virginia, the pride of the Navy, with orders to anchor at New York Harbor...
...Filipinos be given parliamentary government, the U. S. Governor General to appoint a prime minister and leave internal affairs alone; parliament to dissolve for re-election upon overthrowing the prime minister.?C. C. Batchelder, onetime (1914-16) U. S. Secretary of the Interior of the Philippines...
Suppose that U. S. President Coolidge should send a Negro as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's? President Coolidge, prudent, did no such thing last week; but he did appoint a Negro, William T. Francis of St. Paul, as U. S. Minister to the Free & Independent Republic of Liberia...