Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke of Gloucester, whose tour of Australia last year was considered in the Dominion a hint that King George would like to appoint him its Governor General, was passed over last week when His Majesty finally acted on the advice of Premier Joseph Aloysius ("Honest Joe") Lyons...
General, did not insist that George V appoint another Australian to replace the present Governor General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, appointed by His Majesty with the indignant comment, "a man whom I have never seen...
...from King George, went out as Governor of South Australia in 1928, and since 1934 has been Governor of New South Wales. Thus Premier Lyons, famed as Australia's "Great Compromiser," went as far as Australian public opinion would permit last week in advising His Majesty to appoint as Governor General an Old Etonian, something no Dominion today cares to stomach...
...Eccles bill placed the Federal Reserve Board under the thumb of the President by giving him power to appoint and remove at will the Governor and Vice Governor. To this Administration-controlled Board it gave centralized powers to fix rediscount rates and conduct open-market operations (powers that had previously belonged to the twelve regional Reserve Banks throughout the land); authority to alter reserve requirements, and to admit or deny virtually any collateral for rediscount. As the bill emerged after Senator Glass had worked on it, the Federal Reserve Board (renamed the "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
Among endless whispered Soviet quips at Josef Stalin is the one about Lenin's spunky, seamy-faced widow. "Tell that old woman," Dictator Stalin is supposed to have once roared, "that if she doesn't shut up, I'll appoint a new widow of Lenin...