Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only one German felt strong enough to drive a bargain last week with Chancellor Hitler (see above). The bargain: Monkish little Dr. Hans Luther (twice Chancellor, 1925, 1926) agreed to resign as President of the Reichsbank if Chancellor Hitler would appoint him on the spot Ambassador to Washington. Both men scrupulously kept their word...
...office one more day, I will be blamed still more. Even if I die, my death would be of no advantage to the Government nor would it improve the situation. Therefore, I ask the Government to allow me to resign as a sign of its dissatisfaction and to appoint a capable successor...
...debt-ridden farmers a somewhat different procedure was provided. Fifteen of them, all insolvent and living in the same county, could petition a Federal judge who in turn would appoint a conciliation commissioner. This official would receive the debtors' schedules, call in creditors and attempt to work out a compromise which the court would later confirm. The hitch with a farmer's debts is that he generally owes only a single creditor, the holder of the mortgage on his farm. If he refuses to dicker, the farmer is balked at the outset in producing the kind of majority...
...charges against Judge Louderback: 1) he dismissed a receiver who refused to appoint as his attorney a lawyer of the judge's choosing; 2) he granted excessive fees to Samuel Shortridge Jr. in a receivership later voided on appeal; 3) he appointed for Fageol Motor Co. a receiver whom he knew to be incompetent and unqualified; 4) he threw Prudential Holding Co. into receivership and appointed the same incompetent receiver "for the sole purpose of benefiting and enriching his personal friends and associates." A subsidiary accusation was that, to dodge a divorce suit in San Francisco, he established...
...many years it has been the practice of the University, and of the Mathematics department, in particular, to appoint candidates for the Ph.D. degree to part-time instructorships. There are two considerations which, especially at the present time, militate strongly against the renewal of these appointments...