Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest. The Farmer-Laborite Magnus Johnson is running to succeed himself. His vote will make evident how his countrymen from Minnesota are impressed with him as Senator. In Colorado, the two Senators are running against each other. Senator Phipps (Rep.) is running to succeed himself. Senator Adams (Dem.) was appointed a year ago to succeed the late Senator Nicholson. This was an ad interim appoint- ment until an election should be held. The term of Senator Nicholson does not expire until 1927. But Senator Adams decided not to contest for the remaining two years of the Nicholson term. Instead...
...political correspondent of the same paper stated that the Free State was also proposing to appoint a Minister to France: "The French Government was directly approached on the subject some time ago, but regarded the proposal with considerable dubiousness, and decided to ascertain the views of the Foreign Office. Even when our Foreign Office intimated that they would make no objection, they still hesitated to accede to the request, which they felt to be an awkward precedent. But now that Washington has given the lead, they will doubtless intimate their readiness to receive the Free State's representative...
...case of labor disputes, the President should have power to appoint a mediating commission, control distribution, prevent profiteering...
...appoint an executive committee of 350 to direct the campaign...
Meanwhile, the Free State Government appointed John MacNeill as their commissioner on the Boundary Commission. The British Government took immediate steps to appoint a commissioner, but one person after another refused the job, the latest being ex-Premier Sir Robert Borden of Canada. The British Government also called upon the Government of Northern Ireland to appoint their commissioner, but Premier Craig stoutly refused, declaring that "not a yard of our territory will be handed over to a foreign flag," and " if the frontier is attacked, we are entitled to the support of the British Army and Navy to protect...