Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest Business, such as Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitiing and Rheinisch-Westfalische, had abruptly switched from hostility to support of Adolf Hitler. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitiing urged President von Hindenburg "in the interest of that tranquillity required for business revival," to overcome his "strong personal dislike" of Fascist Hitler and appoint him German Chancellor...
...Reichstag can be found. Should the Nazis succeed in building a coalition it would still remain true in Germany?as in Italy?that "Fascism is the negation of democracy." Should they fail, President von Hindenburg was considered certain to dissolve the newly elected Reichstag (TIME, Nov. 14), appoint another protege of himself and General-leutnant von Schleicher as Chancellor and continue to rule by decree...
...President Wilson had determined upon his course of action in the event of his defeat. That was to appoint Mr. Hughes Secretary of State and then have the President and Vice President resign. Mr. Hughes would have become President at once and the interval of waiting would have been abolished...
...chicken blood smeared on their legs and feast distensively. Boys with their first heads get drunk and talk with visionary jaguars, boa constrictors, electric eels and other fierce creatures. The captured women stand and weep. Their weeping is important. If no woman was captured in the raid, the victors appoint their own women as proxies to weep for the gory heads. Each man who took a head goes on a strict diet for at least six months. He may eat no flesh of fierce animals, may never go hunting alone, must exculpate himself by sending a formal payment...
...effort to attract sympathy to his cause last week, King Carol let it be known that a "mysterious and unknown assassin" had been caught in his private car. By the week's end he had other troubles. In a crisis brought on by a League of Nations' proposal to appoint a financial controller for Rumania, the Rumanian Cabinet resigned...