Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decided to appoint committees of five from each Council to meet at the offices of the Yale Student Council in New Haven some time during the next month. Daley made no statement late last night concerning the specific questions that would be discussed at this committee meeting...
...Minister will place Canada on a diplomatic equality with the Irish Free State which has stolen a march on the Dominions by appointing long since its own Minister at Washington. All parts of the Commonwealth are of course still represented by the British Ambassador at Washington-a shadow of empire. (Reputedly the Union of South Africa will soon appoint a Minister to the Netherlands...
Although unable to organize the Senate and appoint its majority committees, the Democrats plus Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead plus any one of the half dozen Republican insurgents will be able to control all legislation. And, such being the case, it seems probable that the two slush-tainted Republican Senators-elect, Frank L. Smith of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, will not be seated...
Decrees Summarized: 1) The Premier will appoint from the Fascist militia the personnel of courts martial which will hereafter deal according to wartime military law with all who are charged with "political crimes"; 2) Political crimes are elaborately defined, embracing at one extreme, attempts upon the life of the Premier, and at the other "the spreading of exaggerated reports"; 3) Of other "new crimes" perhaps the most notable consists in belonging to an anti-Fascist organization of whatever sort, which will be punishable by imprisonment at the discretion of the court martial; 4) The death penalty (heretofore abrogated) will...
...only loophole in the Supreme Court's vital decision is that a militant Senate may strike back against the President's power by passing laws which put the appointment of important officials into other hands. Then the Senate could attach any stipulations for removal which it pleased. For example, it could have the Secretary of the Treasury appoint the Comptroller General, and have the Secretary of Commerce appoint the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Constitution makers were cautiously indefinite about the unknown ground between the powers of the President and Congress. It has always been ground teeming with potential...