Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President received Charles D. Hilles, onetime (1912-16) Republican National Committee Chairman, was advised to appoint Frederick C. Hicks, onetime (1915-23) Congressman from New York, to the post of Alien Property Custodian. Later, Mr. Hilles said that he himself would not accept a Cabinet post (TIME, Apr. 6). ¶The President addressed the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, of which Morgan Butler, son of Senator Butler of Massachuetts, is President. He defended the tariff: "The towering stature of our industrial tariff as we see it today is ... the complete vindication of this policy." He praised our free export policy...
Professional ability in the U. S. diplomatic service won, last week, another victory: the President decided to appoint John Van Antwerp MacMurray to be Minister to China.* Chinese bands, long silent, are beginning to play the tunes of nationalism; the new minister must have a delicate ear, must be a sympathetic critic. Two tunes, in particular, are rising to a crescendo of protest against "foreign domination...
...Eastern Division of the State Department, last year was elevated to an assistant Secretaryship of State. As soon as Minister Schurman accepted the Berlin post, Mr. MacMurray was put forward as the ideal candidate for Peking. Would politics interfere? Could Senator Curtis persuade the President to appoint his fellow-Kan- san, William S. Culbertson? Could some other Senator win the post for some one else? In a word...
When the Senate convenes in December, this appointment must be resubmitted. That there will be a dramatic fight is improbable. First, Mr. Woodlock, a Democrat, cannot be rejected unless all Democratic Senators, both North and South, leagued with all Insurgents, vote against him. Second, there is likely to be another vacancy in the nine-chaired table, to which Mr. Coolidge will appoint a Southerner, thus removing the sting from their objections...
...startling because the Senate has long insisted on most of its constitutional prerogatives. But the Senate's action may have far-reaching consequences. It upset the precedent of three generations. If the Senate is to insist on its full power, it has the right to reject a Cabinet appointment not only on the ground of fitness (as in Mr. Warren's case), but on any ground whatever. A Democratic Senate might insist that a Republican President appoint only Democrats to his Cabinet and vice versa. That is an extreme supposition, but entirely within the scope of possibilities as laid down...