Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next, if agreement is reached in none of these ways, the mediation board may report to the President that there is an emergency. He will then appoint a board of investigation to report the facts of the controversy to him and the public...
Theosophy itself is an inoffensive cult of universal sweetness, light, passivity. Mrs. Besant is a lady of undoubted kindness and some scholarship. She holds a doctor's degree (Litt. D.) from the University of Benares, India. According to Captain Jones, she now plans to appoint twelve "apostles," including herself and several other ladies, to tour the world with the haloed Krishnamurti. Whether she intends anything more than a superlative theosophic lecture tour, with or without a Messiah, depends upon the accuracy of Captain Jones's information...
...return voyage. "Ivan the Terrible begins to spin like a top. "Peter is desperate. "He falls on his knees. "He weeps. "He beats the sailors. "He kisses them. "He prays. "He promises the Lord Jesus Christ a cross if he will save him from shipwreck. He promises to appoint Him a Russian Rear-Admiral. "Ivan the Terrible is hurled upon the coast and shattered to pieces. "Peter and the sailors are washed upon the shore like dead fish...
...life of the country. It has permitted itself to remain so powerless that its only attitude must be humble supplication. Authority should be lodged with the President and the Departments of Commerce and Labor, giving them power to deal with an emergency. They should be able to appoint temporary boards with authority to call for witnesses and documents, conciliate differences, encourage arbitration, and in case of threatened scarcity exercise control over distribution...
...case of Senator Nye, Newcomer No. 4, is complicated because there are doubts as to the legality of his appointment. The regular Republicans are inclined to treat him much as they expect to treat Mr. LaFollette. But the legality of his appointment hangs on the question of whether a state law empowering the Governor of North Dakota to appoint state officers until the next election is applicable. Is a U.S. Senator a state officer? There is a decision of the U. S. Supreme Court which pretty well establishes that a U. S. Senator is a state officer...