Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even the makers of the Constitution were unable to agree on the question of the appointment of statutory Federal employes; so a compromise was written to allow the President power to appoint them "by and with the consent of the Senate," without mentioning any procedure for their removal. Then in 1867, the Tenure of Office Act was passed to prevent the President from removing certain classes of postmasters. Last week's decision declares the 1867 act unconstitutional, and interprets in the broadest sense the President's power of removal...
...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 in all regards differs from Stalin, namely, more patient, more loyal, more polite, and more attentive to comrades, less capricious...
...Stephenson says he spent $120,000 to elect Governor Jackson, and later commanded him to appoint Senator Robinson, Republican, as the successor of the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston, Democrat...
...ablest man that has appeared in public life in any country in my time." And again, a month ago, onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, who wants the U. S. to forgive and forget in the matter of European War debts said: "I would appoint a committee headed by Elihu Root, whom I believe to be the wisest statesman in America...
...Council assembled at luncheon to honor Alan Cobham, holder of the 28,000-mile world's record for long distance point-to-point-and-return flights-England to Australia and return. Clearing his throat, Sir Samuel Hoare announced that it had pleased His Brittanic Majesty to appoint Airman Cobham a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire...