Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the throne. Rumors have had the Metropolitan so hard hit financially that it could not even finish the present season, its directors so dissatisfied with the conservative, practical policies of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza that they were just waiting for the expiration of his contract (April 1935) to appoint some such character as Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel to take his job. That meant surely a company reorganized and moved to Radio City...
...Beverly Randolph Tucker. Richmond, Va. neurologist, advised President Hoover to appoint a National Commission which would prevent sports becoming too rough for human anatomy to withstand...
...board of six officers will be selected from among those signing up, and these men will be expected to attend the meeting before each exhibition, to offer criticisms or suggestions, and to appoint their own successors upon graduating. The executives feel that the students should be given a tangible means of expressing their good will toward the Society...
...amazing about-face resulted from the fact that Free Trader James Ramsay MacDonald now heads a National Government supported by the largest Tory majority in British history (TIME, Nov. 9). Since the War tariffs have again become a leading Tory policy. Against his will, Mr. MacDonald was forced to appoint as Chancellor of the Exchequer famed Tariff Champion Neville Chamberlain. Next April or sooner, Chancellor Chamberlain will bring in an ironclad British Tariff Act, sure to pass. But emergency tariff measures are in the hands of Britain's obscurest cabinet ministry, the Board of Trade. To keep the Board...
Solution? Commission? Since privacy and the formula "appoint a commission" are twin keynotes of the Hoover Administration, observers were at no loss to explain the final action of the Council last week in attempting to persuade China and Japan that a Commission should be sent to investigate Manchuria...