Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written by St. Ignatius Loyola and associates and adopted in 1558. The General lives in Rome, is advised by assistants from various parts of the World (at present only five). Should the General through age or infirmity become incapable of governing the Jesuits, the general congregation may meet and appoint a vicar to act for him. At his death the General may appoint his own vicar, to serve until the congregation elects a full successor...
...Though the Pennsylvania mines were again manned, the temper of the miners was still dangerously explosive. If the final coal code should go against union labor, an outbreak of such bloody violence was feared that nothing short of Federal troops could restore order. ¶ President Roosevelt began to appoint special boards around the country to review veterans' cases of presumptive military disability, trim bogus claims off the pension rolls. The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars were liberally represented on most boards. ¶ Cuba last week occupied a large part of the President's attention...
Just before the New Jersey Legislature adjourned in June it waded around a mass of legislative trivialities to pass an important bill authorizing the Governor to appoint a State Fiscal Commissioner. The office had been recommended as part of the reform program offered by Princeton's Professor (now President) Harold Willis Dodds, whom Governor Moore had invited to survey the State Government (TIME, July 3). By the terms of the Princeton Plan, the Fiscal Commissioner was to be a dictator of the State's finances, with power to suspend or withhold appropriations, reduce personnel. Last week Governor Moore...
...right, we'll get you and get you good!' . . ." How put a stop to gangster pressagentry? Editor Bingay proposed an ambitious scheme: "The only way to get at the publisher of a yellow newspaper is to hit him in the pocketbook." Let the police chiefs appoint a committee to meet with other committees of editors, publishers, advertisers, and-to make sure of their ground-a committee of the American Bar Association. Let them draft a code of newspaper conduct in dealing with crime. Then "the yellow press . . . will be revealed for what it is, just as the American...
...appoint what is known as the Tennessee Valley Authority to include completion of the huge Muscle Shoals project and to develop on a tremedous scale the natural resources of the Tennessee Valey--an admittedly bold national experiment...