Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Significance. The Constitution is a politically sacred law and the Constitution says that the President shall have the power to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the executive officers of the Government.? So what the Senate did was entirely legal and done by authority long vested in it. But the proceeding was unique, almost as unique as the following hypothetical proceeding (equally legal, and by authority of equally long standing) would have been had it taken place...
...Reports indicated that it was the President's intention 1) to appoint a commission to study the problem of disposing of Muscle Shoals- as suggested by a resolution passed by the House shortly before its adjournment; 2) to have Secretary of State Kellogg sound out naval powers on the question of holding a new limitation of armaments conference for light cruisers and submarines, as soon as it became apparent that the attempt for limitation of armaments under the League of Nations (see Page 6) had definitely failed...
...appoint Charles Beecher Warren to enforce the trust laws against himself and his associates is as wicked as to appoint Albert Fall special prosecutor of Harry Sinclair. Fall could be bought. Warren is owned in advance...
...secretary-treasurer of the class ran a competition in which each candidate for the finance committee chairmanships secured as much money as he could. As a consequence many members of the class were approached frequently, some not at all. It is proposed that the chairman shall this year appoint sub-chairmen for the finance committee. They in turn will select representatives for each entry in the dormitories...
...committee of three undergraduates and one graduate, to be selected by the Council, shall start a competition immediately after college opens in the fall, and shall continue until after the first few games. Four men in the competition shall be appointed cheer leaders, on the approval of the Student Council. Next fall, however, five men shall be recommended for approval, one of whom shall be head cheer leader. Thereafter each June the head cheer leader, in conjunction with the committee, shall appoint his successor for the coming year, and this successor shall aid the committee in carrying on the competition...