Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen his Philippine independence bill made law, Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri last week announced his resignation from the Senate effective Feb. 3. "It pleases me," he wrote Governor Guy Brasfield Park, "and I am sure will meet with the approval of Missouri Democrats, to know that you will appoint to this vacancy that very able young statesman, Col. Bennett C. Clark, who has been selected as my successor. Some two years ago I decided to retire, but have awaited the election of a Democratic Governor to fill the vacancy by appointment...
...from Liberty for an article. "The Aim of the Modern High School Girl." Liberty last week said it had no record of that award. But Editrix Ilma's story continues: She went around the world, tried to visit her relatives in Abyssinia and to persuade Ras Tafari to appoint her his U. S. agent. Disorder in Palestine prevented. Home again Miss Ilma edited a pulp magazine, wrote fashion news in Cleveland, department store advertising in Manhattan; acted in Floyd Dell's Cloudy with Showers, learned acrobatic dancing, raised $10,000 for her magazine from Mrs. Thomas Lamont, Julian...
...entice and fructify imagination is certainly worth while if it can be done. The plan would be to have the prize-men selected in any subject by a body of older fellows eminent in different fields, upon evidence of remarkable promise; to provide them with ample stipends, and appoint them for three years with a reappointment for three more if their work in the first term justified the renewal. Mr. Alexander Agassiz once told the writer that he had such a plan in mind; and the new Houses seem to provide an excellent opportunity for an experiment of this kind...
...little importance. It is the secrecy which has been involved in the workings of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that has caused disfavor. When Mr. Roosevelt and his colleagues cuter the White House, they will have an opportunity to be as secretive as the out going administration. Mr. Roosevelt can appoint a commission to continue the investigation of the dishonesty in New York City politics. But eddy though the people do not expect him to act thus. They await his promised "new deal." May he start it by showing that he has enough confidence n his projects to make them public...
...Herbert Hoover . . . unlawfully usurped legislative powers ... a policy inimical to the welfare of the United REPRESENTATIVE MCFADDEN He followed Thaddeus Stevens. States . . . unlawfully dissipated financial resources . . . injured the credit and financial standing ... his declaration of the moratorium has meant sacrifices by the American people. ... He did appoint one Andrew W. Mellon Ambassador while a resolution for the impeachment of the said Mellon was being heard. . . . Treated with contumely the veterans . . . sent a military force heavily armed against homeless, hungry, sick, ragged and defenseless men, women and children and drove them out by force of fire and sword. . . ." When the clerk...