Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college dining-room which would offer a varied diet, without a financial loss. It requires a great gift to arrange a menu to please the critical palates of college men, but it can be done, granting that the clientele will occasionally eat elsewhere for the sake of change. To appoint a dining-room so that it will be physically attractive, which is a very heavy factor in determining the eating preference of people, is another great task that will confront the man who undertakes to manage such an establishment, and one upon whose success depends largely the success...
...purpose of the American Historical Association. Professor Munro stated to appoint a committee to study further the conditions disclosed by Professor Jeruegan's survey, which is one of a group of research projects planned by the Association, and to determine what corrective measures should be recommended
...Reed heard a myriad of tales from a one-time Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan to the general effect that if Senator James E. Watson kept on being a good friend of the Klan he would some day be President of the U. S. Then he would appoint one William F. Zumbrunn (a man who "wines and dines" with Senators and their wives) as Ambassador to Mexico. Whereupon, Senator Watson called Senator Reed to his bedside in an Indianapolis hospital, informed him that it was all a great lie. Said the Senator from Indiana...
Governor Hartley is charged with: 1) "preventing the free expression of the will of the people through their representatives in the Legislature;" 2) failing to put into effect appropriations and laws for state institutions; 3) unjustly removing three University of Washington regents in order to appoint his friends to their offices...
...campus he was receiving young men at his lodging in the town. Realizing that among the first to visit Mr. Buchman would most likely be the leaders of the campus religious organization, the Philadelphian Society, the students attended a mass meeting and voted, 394 to 18, that President Hibben appoint a committee to investigate the Philadelphian Society for "undesirable Buchmanism." There was also a vote of 253 to 85 to the effect that "undesirable Buchmanism" was actually in vogue with the Philadelphian Society. Ironically, the mass meeting had been called by the Society itself to launch a $25,000 charity...