Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus administration of the new law and the five men President Roosevelt will appoint to the Commission became of prime importance to most businesses. Under the power granted it by Congress the Commission could, if it chose, alter the entire face of U. S. business...
...sentencing Al Capone to jail for eleven years. A short time after President Harding made him a Federal judge in 1922, he issued a drastic injunction which broke the railway shop strike and earned him the undying enmity of Labor. Two years ago, President Hoover tried to appoint Judge Wilkerson to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Railway labor promptly sent a representative to protest to the Senate against confirmation of the nomination. The nomination was never confirmed. Labor's emissary was a young Chicago lawyer named Donald B. Richberg. Today Mr. Richberg is NRA's chief counsel...
...Citizens of Independence still resent the merger, feel that onetime Prairie Chairman William Samuel ("Sam") Fitzpatrick "sold out." Last week resentment boiled into a law suit when the onetime secretary of Prairie Oil and six stockholders filed a petition in a Federal court to dissolve Consolidated Oil, appoint a receiver for its $375,000,000 assets. The suit charged fraud, misrepresentation and manipulation in the merger with Prairie Oil, accused "Sam" Fitzpatrick of accepting $449,000 from Mr. Sinclair "without investment or service on his part." During a Senate investigation last November it was revealed that Mr. Fitzpatrick, a small...
Early this week, back from vacation, the President suddenly summoned his congressional henchmen and told them to tear up all their scribblings and simply pass a measure empowering him to appoint a policy-making commission for all U. S. aviation, which would commence study at once, make recommendations to the next Congress. "It should be borne in mind that the U. S. has had no broad aviation policy.'' said the White House. Meantime the mails would be flown privately under Mr. Farley's new temporary contracts or under new one-year contracts authorized by Congress. New Face...
Last week the Mississippi Legislature moved to give Father Collins his reward. By a vote of 19 to 16 the Senate passed a bill authorizing the county sheriff to appoint him hangman at the execution of the Negroes this week. The Senator who introduced it explained that the bill was meant to apply only to the Hernando case, that he would move its repeal the day after Special Hangman Collins springs the trap...