Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Honors List was published at London, Australians were disappointed. Native Sir Isaac Isaacs got nothing-possibly because of the unconcealed anger of George V, who objected vigorously when the Australian Government refused to accept the Duke of York as Governor General, forced His Majesty to appoint Sir Isaac, a man whom he did not "even know by sight" (TIME...
...Rome does, so does Warsaw. Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski is remarkably like Dictator Benito Mussolini, except that he is lazier, more temperamental. II Duce bothers to be Premier of Italy. Marshal Pilsudski will not bother often to be Premier of Poland. Il Duce appoints and demotes his henchmen to & from offices as Governor of Rome, taking care that no man holds power too long. Last week it was time for Dictator Pilsudski to demote from the office of Premier of Poland Col. Walery Slawek and appoint in his stead Col. Alexander Prystor...
Even granting the innocence of the principal figure, the ability of a president to appoint from among is friends to positions of great public trust men capable of such betrayal is hardly a talent for which the nation can be proud...
...that the ballots for next year's Student Council elections must be put in the mail by tonight in order to be counted. Seven members of the Council will be chosen from the Junior Class, while three Sophomores will also be elected. These ten men, after their election, will appoint five more to complete the Council, three Juniors and two Sophomores. In this choice, an attempt will be made to represent all of the seven Houses in the Council...
...such requirement the success of the proposal is more doubtful but none the less possible. The superiority which men who have had this training will show over the beneficiaries of the spoils system or of the present inadequate civil service examinations, may force even a politician to appoint for ability rather than personal service. Since this method of offering such a course as this has never been tried before, it is impossible to predict the outcome, but the importance of the service concerned leads one to expect success. At any rate there can be no doubt about the worth...