Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appoint a Coordinator of Railroads, to affect economics and to find means to prevent what appeared to be on-coming financial ruin...
...four years President Hoover named 78 ambassadors and ministers of whom 32 were career men. In less than five months the President has named 23 ambassadors and ministers of whom nine were career men. Yet to be elected is a President who will appoint a career man to one of the service's four biggest posts-London, Paris, Berlin, Rome. Under Hoover three professionals became ambassadors and under Roosevelt, so far, the same number have received that rank. In Belgium, Greece, Spain and Rumania the President turned out career men to put in political prot...
...suffering last week much as was the U. S. before President Roosevelt's inauguration. Paupered farmers recently forced the Government to forbid foreclosures temporarily. Bills to inflate the national currency have several times been before Congress. In this emergency last week President Justo temporized, unwilling to appoint either an inflationist or an anti-inflationist as Finance Minister. He turned the office over to a virtual caretaker, Minister of Justice & Education Manuel de Iriondo, making him Finance Minister ad interim. To test public opinion the President announced that Argentina will continue to follow the policy of "No moratorium, no waste...
Last week when the League of Nations was almost ready to arbitrate, General Kundt's mines were entirely finished. His sappers, tunneling under the Paraguayan positions, had sewn them thick with dynamite. To England, France, Italy, Spain and Mexico the League dispatched requests that each appoint an arbiter, announced that the arbitral board would be constituted within ten days. General Kundt was quicker than that. Bram! went his mines. The earth heaved. Paraguayan soldiers were lofted into the air like so many clods...
...Society, student and alumni letter-men's organization at the University of California, fortnight ago announced a project the nature of which would cause an ethical shudder if proposed in the East. The Big C will appoint a fulltime representative to canvass secondary and high schools for young athletes and tell them about California "as a place of clean athletics combined with sound scholastic standards." The Big C man will be paid a salary. The Big C asks friends to help. Funds will be audited, kept out of the hands of athletes. Needy men may be helped...